Jonathan Lai

Jonathan Lai

Speedrun Investing Team

About

Jonathan Lai is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he oversees speedrun and its investing motion. He backs founders at the earliest stage, with a focus on AI-native products, developer tools, and new consumer formats.

Before joining a16z, Jon led the North America games investments team at Tencent. Previously, he was a senior product manager at Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends, where he shipped the Riot Games API before the company was acquired by Tencent. He started his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley.

Jon holds an MBA and a BA in Economics from Harvard University, and lives in the Bay Area with his family.

Latest Content by Jonathan

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Marc Andreessen on Startup Timing

Marc Andreessen and Jonathan Lai
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Investing in Hedra

Justine Moore, Troy Kirwin, Jonathan Lai, and Matt Bornstein
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AI Learned to Talk. Now it’s Learning to Build Reality

Colin Campbell and Jonathan Lai
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Anime Is Eating The World

Robin Guo and Jonathan Lai
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The Next Generation Pixar: How AI will Merge Film & Games

Jonathan Lai
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Founders Playbook: Lessons from Riot, Discord, & More

Jonathan Lai, Andrew Chen, Eros Resmini, Michael Chow, and Steven Snow
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Investing in k-ID

Jonathan Lai and Troy Kirwin
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Investing in Yellow

Jonathan Lai and Jack Soslow
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Jonathan @Tocelot · 1d @diveshnaidoo one big step toward the holodeck!
Jonathan @Tocelot · 2d RT @aaronistan: Excited to share that we've raised $11M in pre-seed funding to bring Lume to more homes.

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Jonathan @Tocelot · 2d @aaronistan @bySyncere can't wait for my Lume!!!

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