Andrew Chen

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About

Andrew Chen is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads speedrun.

Andrew has published hundreds of essays on startups and growth at andrewchen.com and in his newsletter, and is the author of The Cold Start Problem (Harper Business), on how new products launch and scale through network effects. Before joining a16z, he led the Rider Growth teams at Uber and worked at several venture-backed startups.

Andrew holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington.

Latest Content by Andrew

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new New Founder Archetypes in the AI Age

Andrew Chen

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What It Takes to Build a Startup | Andrew Chen & Matt Perault

Andrew Chen and Matt Perault

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Investing in Hilbert

Bryan Kim, James da Costa, and Andrew Chen

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Chris Best of Substack on the Future of Media

Chris Best, Katherine Boyle, Andrew Chen, and Erik Torenberg

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Building Substack: Reinventing Culture through Subscriptions

Chris Best and Andrew Chen

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Investing in Backflip

Troy Kirwin and Andrew Chen

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Investing In Promise

Colin Campbell and Andrew Chen

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From Swipe to Scale: How Tinder Became #1

Andrew Chen and Sean Rad

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Andrew @andrewchen · 1d RT @diveshnaidoo: Introducing Reality-Aware Rendering in @Simulon, a completely new way to create with the real world.

Place neural assets…

Andrew @andrewchen · 2d should I be worried that I have 10 different agents with full access permissions to my personal email and running automations and I’m not sure who is running what

Filtering a lot of spam, though!!!!
Worth it?

Andrew @andrewchen · 2d RT @martin_casado: https://t.co/m9RPirzWed