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Jonathan Lai

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Jonathan Lai is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in games. As a founding investor of a16z Games Fund One, Jon focuses on investing at the intersection of games and consumer social, web3, infrastructure, and fintech. Today, Jon serves on the boards of Ready Player Me, Singularity 6, Overwolf, Raid Base, Mountaintop, Mainframe, and Elodie.
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.

Latest Posts

16 Minutes #55: China Steams Ahead in Gaming; MetaHuman Creator and the Uncanny Valley

by Jonathan Lai and Zoran Basich
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • China
  • consumer
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • marketplaces
  • news
  • online communities
  • virtual & augmented reality
  • 16 Minutes
  • entertainment
  • new mediums & forms of communication

Our Top 10 Consumer Tech Posts of 2020

by Connie Chan, Andrew Chen, Jeff Jordan, D'Arcy Coolican, Bennett Carroccio, Jonathan Lai, Anne Lee Skates, and Li Jin
  • China
  • consumer
  • ecommerce
  • education
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • marketplaces
  • mobile (& messaging)
  • news
  • online communities
  • metrics
  • end of year roundups
  • trends 2020

Meet Me in the Metaverse

by Jonathan Lai
  • cloud computing
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • online communities
  • how innovation happens
  • social strikes back

The Founder’s Dilemma: To Compete or Unbundle

by Jeff Jordan, Connie Chan, Andrew Chen, D'Arcy Coolican, Jonathan Lai, Bennett Carroccio, and Anne Lee Skates
  • consumer
  • ecommerce
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • marketplaces
  • online communities
  • network effects
  • social strikes back

From Tocelot

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Jon Lai@Tocelot

I’ve long admired @amyjokim’s Game Thinking show where she’s interviewed some of the most legendary product thinkers in games Honored to come on the show to chat about lessons learned as a PM @riotgames @TencentGames & what i look for investing @a16z https://t.co/yi3tIs34dA

Josh Lu@JoshLu

Metaverse skeptic? Here's why gen alpha (kids <10) will be the first Metaverse Natives and bring it to life: - XR hardware adoption will hit critical mass - Digital identity is taking over IRL identity - Gen alpha will be the most comfortable yet with digital immersion👇 1/ https://t.co/N6KqgHwgyH

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