Erik Torenberg

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About

Erik Torenberg is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on investing and running our marketing & ecosystem orgs to support portfolio companies and deepen the firm’s engagement across the startup ecosystem.

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, Erik founded On Deck, Turpentine, and Village Global. He also seed invested in Scale AI, Applied Intuition, Pave, Lattice, and Rappi.

Latest Content by Erik

General

new New Media, One Year In

Erik Torenberg, Alex Danco, Elena Burger, Henry Williams, Tom Hollands, Brent Liang, and Gaby Goldberg

American Dynamism

How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery

Erik Torenberg, Erin Price-Wright, Doug Bernauer, and Drew Baglino

General

Marc Andreessen on Builder Culture in the Age of AI

Marc Andreessen and Erik Torenberg

Enterprise

AI Inside the Enterprise

Aaron Levie, Steven Sinofsky, Martin Casado, and Erik Torenberg

General

Martin Shkreli on AI, Pharma, and What Actually Matters

Martin Shkreli and Erik Torenberg

General

Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Balaji Srinivasan, Theo Jaffee, and Erik Torenberg

General

The Internet is Real Life

Erik Torenberg

General

Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media

Marc Andreessen, Theo Jaffee, and Erik Torenberg

Consumer

Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll

Anish Acharya, Erik Torenberg, and signüll

Enterprise

The Agent Era: Building Software Beyond Chat with Box CEO Aaron Levie

Aaron Levie, Martin Casado, Steven Sinofsky, and Erik Torenberg

General

Balaji on Why AI Raises the Cost of Verification

Balaji Srinivasan and Erik Torenberg

Infra

Alex Blania on Proof of Human and Building World’s Identity Network

Alex Blania, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Why Every Satellite Needs Earth | Northwood CEO on a16z

Erik Torenberg and Bridgit Mendler

American Dynamism

Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar

Erik Torenberg, Katherine Boyle, and Shyam Sankar

American Dynamism

AI, Supply Chains, and the Future of Economic Power

Erik Torenberg and Jacob Helberg

General

AI’s Oppenheimer Moment

Erik Torenberg

Enterprise

Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next

Alex Rampell, Erik Torenberg, and Mike Cannon-Brookes

Consumer

a16z’s New Media Playbook

Erik Torenberg, Ben Horowitz, and Marc Andreessen

General

The Case for Scaling Venture

Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem

Erik Torenberg and Justin Mares

Infra

“Anyone Can Code Now” – Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents

Martin Casado, Erik Torenberg, and Matt Biilmann

General

Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger

Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Packy McCormick, and Erik Torenberg

Fintech

The Rise, Fall & Reset of The Fintech Industry

David Haber, Erik Torenberg, and Zach Perret

American Dynamism

The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It

Ben Horowitz, Garrett Langley, and Erik Torenberg

Infra

Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers

Ryo Lu, Jennifer Li, and Erik Torenberg

General

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

Benedict Evans and Erik Torenberg

General

How the Best CEOs Delegate

Jonathan Swanson and Erik Torenberg

Enterprise

Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They’ve Changed)

Alex Rampell, David Haber, and Erik Torenberg

Infra

The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast

Marco Mascorro, David Owen, Yafah Edelman, and Erik Torenberg

Fintech

Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner

Vlad Tenev, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)

Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, David Ulevitch, Katherine Boyle, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)

Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, Katherine Boyle, David Ulevitch, and Erik Torenberg

Perennial

Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering

Emmett Shear, Séb Krier, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Can America Win The AI Biotech Race Against China? | Lada Nuzhna & Elliot Hershberg

Lada Nuzhna, Elliot Hershberg, Jorge Conde, and Erik Torenberg

Fintech

Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis

Alex Rampell, Varun Krishna, and Erik Torenberg

General

Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?

Amjad Masad, Adam D'Angelo, and Erik Torenberg

General

What is New Media?

Erik Torenberg, Alex Danco, Henry Williams, and Brent Liang

Bio + Health

Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease

Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg

Consumer

Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software

Eugenia Kuyda, Anish Acharya, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

David Sacks: AI, Crypto, China, Dems, and SF

David Sacks, Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Why Speed, Not Size, Will Define the Next War

Horacio Rozanski, Gary Steele, and Erik Torenberg

General

Beyond Chatbots: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on AI’s Future

Erik Torenberg, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz

General

Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America

Marc Andreessen, Katherine Boyle, and Erik Torenberg

Infra

Marc Andreessen and Amjad Masad: English As the New Programming Language

Amjad Masad, Marc Andreessen, and Erik Torenberg

Perennial

Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Humanity

Reid Hoffman, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg

General

Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood

Marc Andreessen, Katherine Boyle, and Erik Torenberg

General

Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE

Keith Rabois, Erik Torenberg, and Alex Rampell

General

Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a Billion-Dollar Business

Ali Ghodsi, Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg, and Sarah Wang

Infra

Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We’re Asking the Wrong Question

Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg

Infra

Columbia CS Professor: Why LLMs Can’t Discover New Science

Vishal Misra, Martin Casado, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Monitoring the Situation #3: Who Is Nick Land?

Zach Dell, Katherine Boyle, Erin Price-Wright, and Erik Torenberg

Enterprise

Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire

Sam Altman, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg

Infra

Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire

Sam Altman, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg

Enterprise

How to Build a Real Estate Marketplace – Kaz Nejatian, Opendoor CEO

Alex Rampell, Erik Torenberg, and Kaz Nejatian

General

Monitoring the Situation #2: Alana Newhouse

Erik Torenberg, Katherine Boyle, and Alana Newhouse

Consumer

Meta CMO: How Advertising Works Under the Hood

Erik Torenberg, Antonio García Martínez, and Alex Schultz

American Dynamism

China Has Mass. Can America Catch Up?

Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, Brian Schimpf, Chris Power, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1

Erik Torenberg, Katherine Boyle, and Eddy Lazzarin

Enterprise

Software finally eats services – Aaron Levie

Aaron Levie, Steven Sinofsky, Martin Casado, and Erik Torenberg

Bio + Health

America’s Autism Crisis and How AI Can Fix Science with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya

Dr. Bhattacharya, Jorge Conde, Vineeta Agarwala, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race – NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China

Sarah Wang, Guido Appenzeller, Erik Torenberg, and Dylan Patel

Bio + Health

Faster Science, Better Drugs

Jorge Conde, Erik Torenberg, and Patrick Hsu

General

Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics

Mark Cuban and Erik Torenberg

Consumer

Chris Best of Substack on the Future of Media

Chris Best, Katherine Boyle, Andrew Chen, and Erik Torenberg

Enterprise

Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future

Aaron Levie, Martin Casado, Erik Torenberg, and Steven Sinofsky

Consumer

Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?

Minna Song, Tony Stoyanov, Alex Immerman, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs

Oren Cass, Erik Torenberg, and Noah Smith

Infra

Dylan Patel: GPT-5, NVIDIA, Intel, Meta, Apple

Dylan Patel, Erin Price-Wright, Guido Appenzeller, and Erik Torenberg

Speedrun

Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building

Anjney Midha, Marco Mascorro, Justine Moore, Erik Torenberg, Jack Parker-Holder, and Shlomi Fruchter

American Dynamism

The State of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’

Martin Casado, Anjney Midha, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of AI, Tech, & the Global World Order

Erik Torenberg, Steven Sinofsky, and Balaji Srinivasan

Consumer

GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim

Erik Torenberg, Sarah Wang, Christina Kim, and Isa Fulford

American Dynamism

Dwarkesh and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy

Erik Torenberg, Noah Smith, and Dwarkesh Patel

American Dynamism

Balaji on How Tech Truly Wins Media

Balaji Srinivasan and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money

Martin Casado, Balaji Srinivasan, and Erik Torenberg

General

New Media: Podcasts, Politics & the Collapse of Trust

Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, and Erik Torenberg

Consumer

Where We Are in the AI Cycle

Anish Acharya, Steven Sinofsky, and Erik Torenberg

Consumer

Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks

Bryan Kim, Erik Torenberg, and Roy Lee

American Dynamism

How Apple Became So Reliant on China & What it Means For Their Future

Steven Sinofsky and Erik Torenberg

Consumer

The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI

Bryan Kim, Anish Acharya, Olivia Moore, Justine Moore, and Erik Torenberg

Infra

Fei-Fei Li: World Models and the Multiverse

Fei-Fei Li, Martin Casado, and Erik Torenberg

General

Marc Andreessen: What We Got Right—and Wrong—About the Future of Tech

Marc Andreessen and Erik Torenberg

General

Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software

Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Rick Rubin, Erik Torenberg, and Anjney Midha

General

Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software

Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, Rick Rubin, Erik Torenberg, and Anjney Midha

Infra

Where Value Will Accrue in AI: Martin Casado & Sarah Wang

Martin Casado, Sarah Wang, and Erik Torenberg

American Dynamism

Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models

Anjney Midha, Guido Appenzeller, and Erik Torenberg

General

The Evolution of the Firm — with Ben and Marc

Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, and Erik Torenberg

General

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz: Rewriting the Rules of Venture — Live From the a16z LP Summit

Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, and Erik Torenberg

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