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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

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

Edtech’s Answer to Remote Learning Burnout

by Anne Lee Skates and Connie Chan
  • consumer
  • education
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • marketplaces
  • news
  • online communities
  • coronavirus & the COVID-19 pandemic

From @anneleeskates

Anne Lee Skates@anneleeskates

Love this! We will see a lot more consumer app and brands get crazy distribution leveraging TikTok in the coming years! Some early pioneers @beaconsai @breathwrk @sameerskapur. Any other startups growing off of TikTok? https://t.co/TbikGFs7wA

Andrew Chen@andrewchen

👇 Some news: I've led a16z's new investment in Clubhouse and have joined the board. Essay below that covers: - how I know founders @pdavison @rohanseth - why we're excited to invest - how we think Clubhouse is unique - particularly for creators! https://t.co/2t1Uzj2uJ4

Anne Lee Skates@anneleeskates

Does anyone else look forward to quotes from tea bags? Got this one from Ralph Waldo Emerson today 😄 https://t.co/MiNide09a9

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