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Joe Schmidt

Joe Schmidt

Joe Schmidt is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on investments in fintech and insurtech.

Prior to joining a16z, Joe was VP, Business Development at Ethos, a life insurance company offering families simple, affordable life insurance in minutes. While at Ethos, Joe started and scaled the agent business to millions in monthly revenue, while also leading sales and managing carrier and reinsurance partnerships. Before Ethos, Joe was an investor at Accel.

Joe graduated from the University of Notre Dame, where he was captain and voted most valuable player of the football team. He was also a Buser Fellow and worked closely with the university’s endowment. 

Latest Posts

2023: A Year for Fintech M&A (January 2023 Fintech Newsletter)

by Marc Andrusko, Melissa Wasser, JJ Yu, Seema Amble, and Joe Schmidt
  • fintech
  • fintech

Escaping Hell’s Flywheel: Building Non-inflationary Distribution Channels  

by Joe Schmidt
  • fintech
  • fintech

Investing in Payall

by Joe Schmidt, Seema Amble, and Anish Acharya
  • fintech
  • fintech

It’s All About the Money (Movement): Simplifying Cross-Border Payments

by Joe Schmidt and Anish Acharya
  • fintech

From @joeschmidtiv

Zeya@zeyalater

1/ Founders and company leaders know that customer segmentation is important, but often don’t appreciate *why* it's important. @bashogry and I wrote a piece on segmentation, and how you’re not thinking about it correctly! Check it out: https://t.co/UF96pJJ07Z

Joe Schmidt IV@joeschmidtiv

Regulators are already on a roll in 2023 Expecting more of the same this year to propel compliance to the top of the priority list https://t.co/t9fNi36FvD

Dylan Dethier@dylan_dethier

golf equivalent: you need to hole out from 275 yards on the 18th hole to force a playoff. you wait for the green to clear, pull 3-wood ... then you drill one off the tree directly in front of you. it ricochets back and hits your caddie square in the face https://t.co/30cXEQuvbX

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