About
Grace Ellis is an operating partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she leads marketing for the Growth team and Ben Horowitz.
Grace joined the firm in 2011 to build the a16z brand and raise the profiles of its general partners. She launched both of Ben’s books, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are. She also led marketing for the Enterprise team and portfolio for several years, advising on brand, communications, content strategy, events, and issues and crisis management.
Prior to a16z, Grace was a marketing and communications leader at blinkx, the video search engine. She started her career in high tech communications at The OutCast Agency, where she worked closely with emerging startups and publicly traded companies.
Grace graduated with a BS in business administration, focusing on management, international business, and cultural anthropology, from Georgetown University. When she’s not working or chasing down her two wild boys, she is planning her next getaway.