About
Joe Morrissey is a general partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz, focused on enterprise technology companies.
Prior to joining a16z, Joe was chief revenue officer at Segment, where he scaled revenues to upwards of $200M ARR in advance of the company’s $3.2B acquisition by Twilio. Before Segment, he was was the EMEA vice president and general manager for three open source software companies: Hortonworks, which combined with Cloudera in a $5.2B merger in 2019; MongoDB, which went public in 2017; and MySQL, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems for $1B in 2008.
Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in business studies from the University of Limerick, Ireland. He currently serves on the boards of Neon Inc., and Hopsworks AB and lives in Menlo Park with his wife and two kids.
Latest Content
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Why ICP misalignment is often the hidden cause of common problems across the entire company—and how to fix it.
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11x frees salespeople from the nightmare of administrative work and qualification drudgery by building digital workers that autonomously complete tasks for revenue teams.
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How Segment course-corrected its move upmarket into a successful $3.2B acquisition by Twilio.
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Refocus your customer success org on driving customer health, and you'll unlock significant—and efficient—revenue growth in your post sales org.
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