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Peter Lauten

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Peter Lauten is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz focused on early-stage investments in enterprise applications. His investment interests include the next generation of software powering knowledge workers, the bottom-up go-to-market motion as an attack vector against the old guard of enterprise incumbents, and seasoned teams reshaping mature industries with vertical SaaS.

Prior to joining a16z in 2016, Peter spent two years in NYC as an investment banking analyst. He studied economics at Duke University and grew up in rural South Carolina.

Latest Posts

Adventures in AI economics; SaaS+fintech; growth+sales; and GPT-3’s prospects

by a16z editorial, Martin Casado, Matt Bornstein, Kristina Shen, Kimberly Tan, and Peter Lauten
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • fintech
  • go to market
  • growth
  • Company Building 101

Growth+Sales: The New Era of Enterprise Go-to-Market

by Peter Lauten and Martin Casado
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • go to market
  • Company Building 101

a16z Podcast: AI in B2B

by Oleg Rogynskyy, Peter Lauten, and Das Rush
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • Company Building 101
  • founder/maker stories
  • future of work
  • sales (& partnerships)

Product-User Fit Comes Before Product-Market Fit

by Peter Lauten and David Ulevitch
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • go to market
  • growth
  • product management
  • Company Building 101
  • product-market fit

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Snowstorm Setup https://t.co/WQg9Hg55KH

Ian White@eonwhite

A year ago, this was the entire ChartHop team. (Well, Ace was a little smaller) Today as we announce our $14m Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, I'm truly grateful for our amazing team of 18, our investors, and our customers. We wouldn't be here without you. Back to building! https://t.co/rdaWOw7Qun

a16z@a16z

Combining bottom-up growth and tops-down sales is becoming a standard playbook for enterprise startups, but mastering the tactics is no easy feat. @martin_casado & @peter_lauten discuss how to avoid 6 common failure modes when building your company: https://t.co/MsQbAypUBP

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