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Andrew Chen

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Andrew Chen is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, focusing on consumer technology. Previously, he led the the Rider Growth teams at Uber.

For the past decade, he’s written about mobile, metrics, and growth at http://andrewchen.co. He is an advisor/investor for tech startups including AngelList, Barkbox, Boba Guys, Dropbox, Front, Gusto, Kiva, Product Hunt, Tinder, Workato and others.

Previously, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based firm with $2B under management.

He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington.

Latest Posts

Why We’re Investing in Virtual Kitchen Co

by Andrew Chen
  • marketplaces

a16z Podcast: Come for the Games, Stay for the Party

with Andrew Chen, Jonathan Lai, and Lauren Murrow
  • gaming & new media
  • mobile
  • VR & AR

State of Play: Six Trends Revolutionizing Games

by Jonathan Lai and Andrew Chen
  • gaming & new media
  • mobile
  • online communities
  • network effects
  • gaming
  • trends 2019

Singularity 6

by Andrew Chen
  • gaming & new media
  • gaming

From andrewchen

Andrew Chen@andrewchen

My process for writing a blog post: - emphatically argue a collection of points over dinner, with a coworker, etc - write down a one-liner summarizing the opinion into a notes app. @notejoyapp of course - over time, collect links and random points related to the topic

Andrew Chen@andrewchen

When analyzing a marketplace co: - look at retention (is it sticky? Yearly >50%?) and acq (scalable? Low paid % and fast CAC payback <6m?) - analyze each side of the market separately - one side (usually sellers) has to be sticky. Or both. Not neither - is top line 3x YoY?

Joseph Flaherty@josephflaherty

Critics of PG's tweet need to wrestle with these facts: πŸ¦„ There have been ~77 $1B+ exits outside of the Bay Area over the last decade 🚫 *NONE* would crack the top 10 overall exits of the decade πŸ‘» Exclude Facebook and *ONE* would, Snap, at spot #10 https://t.co/8RwuoTZf6n https://t.co/aXNOOAg0uA

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