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Anne Lee Skates

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Anne Lee Skates is a partner on the consumer investing team, where her interests include gen-Z consumer trends, retail and commerce infrastructure, and the future of cities, such as real estate and construction.

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, she was a seed stage investor at Floodgate, where she sourced and led several consumer investments. Before that she worked as an early hire in product and engineering roles at two startups, Solv Health and FundersClub. She started her career in consulting at McKinsey in San Francisco.

Anne graduated from Princeton University, magna cum laude, where she started a failed company and experienced a taste of the challenges of entrepreneurship first-hand. Originally from Taiwan, she came to the US to become a professional violinist and performed a solo at the 49th Grammy Awards.

Latest Posts

a16z Slack Debate: Breakout Marketplace Companies and Categories

by Jeff Jordan, Connie Chan, Sriram Krishnan, D'Arcy Coolican, Jonathan Lai, Anne Lee Skates, Bryan Kim, and Brandon Barros
  • consumer
  • ecommerce
  • education
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • Marketplace 100
  • marketplaces
  • growth
  • metrics
  • network effects

Our Top 10 Consumer Tech Posts of 2020

by Connie Chan, Andrew Chen, Jeff Jordan, D'Arcy Coolican, Bennett Carroccio, Jonathan Lai, Anne Lee Skates, and Li Jin
  • China
  • consumer
  • ecommerce
  • education
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • marketplaces
  • mobile (& messaging)
  • news
  • online communities
  • metrics
  • end of year roundups
  • trends 2020

The Founder’s Dilemma: To Compete or Unbundle

by Jeff Jordan, Connie Chan, Andrew Chen, D'Arcy Coolican, Jonathan Lai, Bennett Carroccio, and Anne Lee Skates
  • consumer
  • ecommerce
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • marketplaces
  • online communities
  • network effects
  • social strikes back

Six Ways New Social Companies Will Monetize

by Anne Lee Skates
  • consumer
  • ecommerce
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • online communities
  • social strikes back

From @anneleeskates

Pratham@Prathkum

WhatsApp API is now public. 👀

Anne Lee Skates@anneleeskates

Scientific research backing all my years spent as a musician 🎵🎻 cc @raychenviolin @aurochsandroses "musicians' brains were vastly more structurally and functionally connected than non-musicians, especially in areas of the brain responsible for speech and sound..." https://t.co/nA2sGIo3TR

Anne Lee Skates@anneleeskates

We're still open for business investing in the creator economy! 👇 @JayHoovy has a great thread on the creator economy's current challenges, predictions and opportunities https://t.co/V7FsnCY3Ey

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