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Margit Wennmachers is a partner emeritus at a16z. She joined the firm in 2010, after representing and launching Andreessen Horowitz in 2008. Best known for her ability to create market-leading brands, Margit is a16z's chief marketer, advising the firm and its entrepreneurs on their marketing and communications strategies.
An entrepreneur herself, in 1997, Margit cofounded the leading marketing and communications firm, The OutCast Agency, who today partners with leaders and disruptors like Airbnb, Amazon, Box, Facebook, HBO, Instagram, Intuit, Lyft, Nike, and more.
Margit has been in technology marketing for over 25 years and is a mentor to many leaders in the technology and marketing industries. She has advised countless founders and CEOs, consulted on hundreds of company and product launches, as well as scrubbed in on more crises than she'd care to reveal.
She spent her childhood in a small village in West Germany before emigrating to the United States. She speaks English, German, Spanish, and French. She serves on the board of the German Marshall Fund, a non-partisan policy organization committed to the idea that the United States and Europe are stronger together. Margit loves being a mom, eating delicious food, and traveling all over creation.
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