andrew chen
@andrewchen
🇺🇸 a16z speedrun. Venture capital in tech, entertainment, and AI
👇🏼new role on the a16z speedrun team that works closely with myself and @Tocelot. Please intro us to folks and/or reach out via mutuals! Thank you
come work with me @a16z! we're hiring a partner on our Speedrun investment team - this is a small, fast-growing team inside a16z focused on first-money-in investing in brand new, innovative start-ups building on the frontier if you love working hands-on with very early-stage…
Thinking about this observation from @tylercowen again:
Happy bday to my lil sis @adachen!! We’ve come a long way 😂
We’re announcing $100M in Series C funding led by @bondcap and The Chernin Group, with participation from @a16z, CEO of SKIMS @JensGrede, and CEO of Klutch Sports @RichPaul4. @moodrowghani will join our board.
We've raised $100m in Series C funding for Substack. Thrilled to partner with @moodrowghani at @bondcap, TCG, plus @JensGrede, @RichPaul4, and @a16z
We’ve raised $100 million that we will put to work for creators and their audiences. Ownership for creators. Agency for audiences. Substack is a network built in service of people who care about culture. I’m pumped for this. Now we go big.
We now have enough money to hire one part-time AI researcher
We've raised $100m in Series C funding for Substack. Thrilled to partner with @moodrowghani at @bondcap, TCG, plus @JensGrede, @RichPaul4, and @a16z
For years, we assumed consumers wouldn’t pay for software. Now people are happily paying $200+/mo for products like Claude, Grok 4 Heavy and Gemini. Not because they’re for everyone, but because they’re 100x better for someone. The free tier is the funnel. The real product is…
great to host a ton of LA founders at the a16z offices today in Santa Monica appreciate @SalarShahini (sweatpals) @Eb33la1 (lil snack) for the great interview + @EmlynThompsonLA for organizing
LA Speaker Series kicked off in style by @andrewchen and @speedrun founders @SalarShahini & @Eb33la1 🤩 @a16z Santa Monica
I am honored today to officially join @USOPM as director and help lead the federal workforce modernization effort through efficiency, accountability, and putting taxpayers first. I am grateful to @POTUS for this opportunity and to all the dedicated public servants at OPM.
Thrilled to back @miramurati and the world-class team behind ~ every major recent AI research and product breakthrough. RL (PPO, TRPO, GAE), reasoning, multimodal, Character, and of course ChatGPT! No one is better positioned to advance the frontier. Excited to see the future…
Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world - through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're…
After 7 months in stealth, excited to share what I’ve been building: @ShopAtorie, we’re leveraging AI to rebuild one of the world’s most broken systems: the $2T apparel supply chain. We also raised a $2M pre-seed led by @a16z @speedrun, with @flexcapital, Eric Woersching…
Substack exceeds traffic of storied newsrooms. Here's to the paradigm shift – and the writers who made it happen. Well done @hamishmckenzie @cjgbest
You can’t understand American political culture without understanding this point. Worth listening to in full.
Marc Andreessen: if you're the parents of a smart kid where I grew up [rural Wisconsin] and you think you're going to get them into a top university in this country, you're fooling yourself... What level of untapped talent exists in this country that a combination of DEI and…
A great day for America
It's official: @skupor, the first employee of @a16z, is now running OPM after getting senate confirm.
solarpunk red dead redemption! fun weekend project: working on a game trailer where you journey thru a solarpunk Wild West with mechs, killer drones, & floating sky cities WIP below, with @midjourney / veo3 / @udiomusic
Last day in aspen Am enjoying driving an RV through Colorado (Durango, silverton, ouray, crested butte, aspen, etc) while listening to Michener’s book on the start and growth of a fictional Colorado mountain town
Homeschool your kids.
The teachers union's "2025 Teacher of the Year" said her job is "deeply political" and always has been. "Once I realized how deeply political our profession had always been, I knew I could no longer stay on the sidelines."
Obv thing is competing for zero sum things like social status, political elections, etc 😂 But thinking more deeply - I wonder in a civilization like that what the bottlenecks/constraints might be? Let’s say I wanted to colonize the galaxy or build a Dyson sphere and I had…
Quadrupeds are fast. Agile. Great at locomotion. But can they manipulate? A new approach from Carnegie Mellon University, Google DeepMind, and Bosch is teaching quadrupedal robots to do more than walk, they’re learning to interact. It’s called Human2LocoMan: a system that uses…