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Gabriel Vasquez

Investment Partner, Andreessen Horowitz. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Gabriel Vasquez is an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz spearheading global and international investment strategies across the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. Prior to joining a16z, he worked on pricing strategy at Oscar Health and as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan.

What they said7 Shows1

Everything Gabriel Vasquez said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Assertion Supported

Vasquez: Polish government invested in ElevenLabs

“The Polish government just invested in 11 Labs and is gonna do a bunch of initiatives with them.”

Gabriel Vasquez Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 19:22 The Opportunity for Global Founders

a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated

Vasquez: Brazil accounted for a high share of Cognition's early revenue

“In the cases of really hot companies in Silicon Valley, like Cognition, where their early go-to-market was actually Brazil, and you represent their really high share of the revenue early on, because this, these companies or these enterprises really desire to a…”

Gabriel Vasquez Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 25:11 The Opportunity for Global Founders

a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated

Vasquez: Voi's Fredrik Hjelm is invested across Sweden's top startups

“If you look at all the angel investments that the Frederick did, he's pretty much in all the relevant companies that came out of Sweden.”

Gabriel Vasquez Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 28:24 The Opportunity for Global Founders

a16z Opinion

Gabriel Vasquez: Silicon Valley outpaces all other startup ecosystems in operating speed

“Silicon Valley continues to be ahead of every other ecosystem is the level of speed that people operate.”

Gabriel Vasquez Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 41:29 The Opportunity for Global Founders

a16z Assertion Supported

Vasquez: Early Borderless Dinner attendees Slash and Factory became unicorn founders

“That group also has matured now. Where people that were early attendees of the, of that group has now graduated into unicorn founders, and now they're speakers. So like, we can give the example of Victor Cardenas from Slash, or Anna Reyes from Factory.”

Gabriel Vasquez Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 8:50 The Opportunity for Global Founders

a16z Assertion Supported

Vasquez: Swedish dropout Gabriel Petersson worked at Midjourney and OpenAI before founding

“So this was a high school dropout from Sweden, came to the U.S. With no education, got a job on MidJourney, then became one of the youngest researchers at OpenAI, and now he started a company.”

Gabriel Vasquez Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 29:51 The Opportunity for Global Founders

a16z Assertion Partly supported

Vasquez: Latin America had only 30 unicorns during initial a16z mapping

“At the time that I did the mapping and paying Angela, there were only 30 unicorns in Latin America.”

Gabriel Vasquez Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 3:19 The Opportunity for Global Founders

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Gabriel's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	Investment Partner, Andreessen Horowitz	2	7	75% 3/4	full record on the a16z Podcast →