More About Katie
Katie Baynes is the COO of Andreessen Horowitz’s $1.25B AI Infrastructure practice.
Prior to joining the AI Infrastructure team, Katie had a storied career in brand marketing with leadership roles at a16z and Square; including Cash App & restaurant delivery company Caviar. She has expertise in category creation, executive communications and crisis management.
As a communications professional Katie has worked directly with leaders like Jack Dorsey and Richard Branson and has put executives and products on the front pages of Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, The Ringer, the Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes and more. With teams, she has hosted brand events featuring leaders from around the world — on airport tarmacs in Toronto and Dallas, with government leaders in Tokyo, and with the Vice President of the United States in Washington, D.C.. In addition to her operational work, Katie has advised hundreds of startups on their brand and communications strategy.
Katie holds entrepreneurship in the highest regard and thanks the first entrepreneur she worked with (her dad!) for showing her the unrelenting courage it takes to build something new. She credits her interest in the power of brand with her first job at Wegmans where, as a cashier she learned firsthand that brand isn’t marketing — it’s the culture a company creates. She was named employee of the month at age 15 and has taken immense pride in her work ever since.