More About Jonathan
Jonathan Lai is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. As a cofounder of A16Z GAMES, Jon invests at the intersection of games and technology, with a focus on games as social networks, AI-native games, and virtual worlds infrastructure.
Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jon led the North America games investments team at Tencent. Prior, Jon 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 for Morgan Stanley.
Jon graduated from Harvard University with an MBA and BA in Economics, and lives in the Bay Area with his family.
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