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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
  • bottom up SaaS & sales
  • Company Building 101

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

by Peter Lauten and Martin Casado
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • go to market
  • bottom up SaaS & sales
  • 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

From peter_lauten

David George@DavidGeorge83

“One app to replace them all” - we’re excited to announce @a16z Growth’s investment in @Clickup and @DJ_CURFEW. More here on why 👇 https://t.co/gYL8dEUgz6

Peter Lauten@peter_lauten

Cycling around New England https://t.co/htbLOFms5Y

David Ulevitch 🇺🇸@davidu

Every SaaS company knows that customer success is the fulcrum that determines long-term success, and those companies can now use @vitally_io to manage it. Excited to work with Patrick and Jamie and leading their Series A! https://t.co/YxcQ8oW9Ut

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