Public companies have to think about profits. But they can't stop there. Because long-term success hinges on satisfied customers. In this episode of a16z Fintech’s “In the Vault” featuring Capital Group’s Mark Casey and a16z GP David George, we explore why public companies should have a customer-focused North Star, balancing investor pressure and long-term success with honest financial metrics. Link in comments 👇
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Menlo Park, CA 434,601 followers
Software is eating the world
About us
Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, fintech and games spaces. a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners, many of whom are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services. We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building. https://a16z.com/portfolio/ https://a16z.com/podcasts/ https://a16z.com/videos/ http://a16z.com/subscribe
- Website
-
http://www.a16z.com
External link for Andreessen Horowitz
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2009
Locations
-
Primary
2865 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025, US
Employees at Andreessen Horowitz
Updates
-
The Little Tech Agenda by Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz. 🔗 Read the full agenda: https://lnkd.in/eXU_Ghi4
-
An upcoming focus on video will change how teams train and run generative models, Robert Nishihara of Anyscale says. On the latest AI + a16z podcast, he shares thoughts on: 🎥 Video data 👨💻 Productionizing AI models 🏫 Spinning a company out of Berkeley, where the Sky Computing Lab (the successor to RISELab and AMPLab) has spawned many successful open source projects and companies. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnkd.in/e9sTYaTm
-
We are proud to announce we’re leading the Series B round for Saronic Technologies. In less than two years, Saronic has turned unmanned surface vessels for maritime autonomy from theory to reality — with an extraordinary team of engineers from companies like Anduril Industries, SpaceX and Liquid Robotics — and met the requirements needed to build for the U.S. Navy. We’re proud to support founder and CEO Dino Mavrookas and the entire Saronic team. Let’s go! Read more from Katherine Boyle 👇 https://lnkd.in/eRSBsJEF
-
A huge welcome to these founders. Check out more about what they're doing 👇 Let's go!
🎉 A big welcome to our Talent x Opportunity Fall 2024 cohort! 🌟 These founders are all building at the intersection of culture & lifestyle: from making personal styling more accessible 🛍 to authenticating artwork 🖼 to modernizing music merch for fans 🎶. Say 👋🏿 👋🏼 👋🏾 and learn more about what they’re building in our blog post: https://bit.ly/3zOSMJX 📣 WELCOME 📣 Ashlyn Greer: Fashivly 🛍 Win Feigle: Feedplan 🌯 Jeff Ivory: GamerXSociety | The Future Of Gaming 🎮 Mamadou Ndiaye Jr. and Derek Gauthier : Timbucktoo 🖼 Mel David: Virch Merch 🎶
-
Trump vs. Biden: Which is the better choice for Little Tech? Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have decided the answer is Trump. They give their thoughts in a new, 90-minute episode of "The Ben & Marc Show." Watch now: https://lnkd.in/eUY-mP5i
-
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz: "We believe bad government policies are now the #1 threat to Little Tech. We believe American technology supremacy, and the critical role that Little Tech startups play in ensuring that supremacy, is a first class political issue on par with any other. The time has come to stand up for Little Tech." Read "The Little Tech Agenda" in full: https://lnkd.in/eXU_Ghi4
-
If you thought LLMs were trained on lots of data, meet the Dream Machine model from Luma AI. As chief scientist Jiaming Song explains to a16z's Anjney Midha, this 3D model was trained on an estimated hundreds of trillions of tokens worth of video data 👇 Jiaming gives his insight into where it's all going, on AI + a16z:
-
The Internet was built on open source software. The very ecosystem that yielded our most popular operating systems, privacy protocols, and widely used databases, is now under threat. Arthur Mensch, cofounder of Mistral AI, discusses on the a16z podcast why this technology wave is no different, and why open source is actually the "safest" path ahead in a world of artificial intelligence.
-
Andreessen Horowitz reposted this
Today we are excited to announce our investment in Command Zero after 2.5 years of working with Dov Yoran, Alfred Huger, and Dean De Beer on building the first autonomous and user-led cyber investigation platform. In the security industry, it's a widely held belief that the "Red Team always wins". This is to say, that attackers are always advantaged because they only need to be successful 1% of the time to win. Command Zero looks to shift that balance by increasing the speed and accuracy of the Blue Team's response by incorporating automation and advanced LLMs to augment human investigators. Dov, Alfred, and Dean are the kind of founders we love to back. Hardcore security practitioners, threat hunters, incident responders, and company builders. It's rare to find such a strong combination of skills aligned to tackle some of the hardest security problems. We're looking forward to seeing Command Zero shift the advantage towards the Blue Team. **None of the above should be taken as investment advice or an advertisement for investment services; please see https://lnkd.in/gabzDYf5 for more information.
hello everyone - we are excited to come out of stealth after 2.5 years of building an exceptional team, kick ass platform and cadre of early adopters. thanks to the support of our friends, family, industry colleagues, the Command Zero team and my partners in crime Alfred Huger and Dean De Beer. now the fun really begins! we look forward to seeing you soon and sharing our story in person. check out more my blog post https://lnkd.in/gvEtffDs
Introducing Command Zero & Why focusing on tier-2+ is the best investment for security operations
cmdzero.io