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Derrick Harris
Enterprise

Derrick Harris

Marketing

More About Derrick

Derrick Harris is an editor at a16z, managing the content workflow across the Infra and American Dynamism teams.

He joined from VMware, where he managed editorial and content for the cloud-native Tanzu business unit. Prior to that, he managed various content marketing functions, among other things, at a handful of early-stage, growth-stage, and publicly traded enterprise software companies. Derrick began his career as a journalist, most notably at Gigaom, where he covered the burgeoning fields of cloud computing, (big) data, and AI.

Derrick has a B.A. in print journalism, and a J.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is an unabashed metalhead, a semi-avid reader, and still trains in muay thai.

Latest Content

  • Who’s Coding Now? AI and the Future of Software DevelopmentNew
    Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, Yoko Li, and Derrick Harris

    The a16z Infra teams explores how LLMs are reshaping software development — from its potential as a new programming abstraction to its practical impacts.

  • What Is an AI Agent?
    Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, Yoko Li, and Derrick Harris

    a16z Infra partners Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Yoko Li discuss and debate one of the tech industry's buzziest words right now: AI agents.

  • Data Management for Enterprise LLMs
    George Fraser, Guido Appenzeller, and Derrick Harris

    Fivetran cofounder and CEO George Fraser and a16z partner Guido Appenzeller discuss how LLMs fit into the data management picture within large enterprises.

  • Best of the Year: Building AI Companies
    Andreas Blattman, Ben Firshman, Dean De Beer, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Jesse Zhang, Mohammad Norouzi, Naveen Rao, Nikhil Buduma, Patrick Esser, Robert Nishihara, Robin Rombach, Tony Holdstock-Brown, and Derrick Harris

    A 2024 highlight reel from the AI + a16z podcast, featuring insights, advice, and experiences from building AI companies.

  • Can AI Agents Finally Fix Customer Support?
    Jesse Zhang, Kimberly Tan, and Derrick Harris

    Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang and a16z's Kimberly Tan discuss how LLMs are reshaping customer support and how AI agents enable a disruptive pricing model.

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