Carilu Dietrich

Carilu Dietrich

Growth Operations Team

About

Carilu Dietrich is an operating partner on Growth and leads a16z Growth Advisory, where she helps portfolio company executives scale their go-to-market organizations with greater clarity, rigor, and speed.

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, she spent a decade as an interim CMO and advisor to CEOs, CMOs and CROs at high-growth companies including Lovable, 1Password, Miro, Kong, Chronosphere, Weights & Biases, BILL, and Sprout Social. She partnered with leadership teams on go-to-market strategy, AI-transformation, messaging& positioning, demand generation  and executive communications.

Previously, Carilu led marketing at Atlassian from hypergrowth through its IPO, scaling the marketing team from 15 to 100 people. Earlier in her career, she led global awareness advertising at Oracle, worked with Larry Ellison and the leadership team on campaigns seen worldwide across digital, print, global airports and sporting events. 

Carilu is a Certified OKR Coach and the author of Hypergrowth Leadership, a blog read by more than 20,000 executives. She also founded the CMO AI Club, a community of 50 marketing leaders at companies with more than $100M in ARR who are navigating hypergrowth and AI.

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