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Andrew Chen

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Andrew Chen is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in consumer technology, including social, marketplace, entertainment, and gaming experiences. Today, Andrew serves on the boards of All Day Kitchens, Clubhouse, Envoy, Hipcamp, Maven, Reforge, SandboxVR, Singularity6, Sleeper, Snackpass, and Substack.

Andrew is a prolific writer and leading voice on mobile, metrics, and user growth. For the past decade, he’s covered the topic on andrewchen.com. He is the author of The Cold Start Problem, which explores how new start-ups launch and scale by leveraging network effects. He is also a board member and instructor at Reforge, which offers selective growth-focused programs for experienced professionals in marketing, product, data, and engineering.

Prior to joining a16z, Andrew led the Rider Growth teams at Uber. 

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

Latest Posts

Investing in Voldex

by Andrew Chen and Jack Soslow
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • announcements

Investing in PLAI Labs

by Arianna Simpson, Andrew Chen, and Robin Guo
  • crypto & web3
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • announcements

Investing in Seidr

by Joshua Lu and Andrew Chen
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • a16z games
  • announcements

LA Tech Week 2022: Investing in Los Angeles

by Katia Ameri, Turner Novak, Andrew Chen, Minnie Ingersoll, and Michelle Kung
  • consumer
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • the creator economy
  • LATW
  • Los Angeles

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andrew chen@andrewchen

Amazing idea lol https://t.co/LWkIFHS3XA

Jordan Mazer@justmazer

🧵Managing a team is hard. If you're new to it, or need some motivation, take a few lessons from some truly world class leaders: 1/7

andrew chen@andrewchen

work update. Many of you know I've been heads down with a new project at a16z -- our first Games Fund -- which launched last year with $660M I've been thinking of doing more "Build In Public" tweets about this journey Would you be interested in this topic?

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