Andreessen Horowitz
also referred to as: a16z
includes a16z Crypto, a16z Podcast Network
49 statements across 13 episodes · 27 bullish · 4 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Sep 2, 2019 by Scott Kupor · said 150 times in 41 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Ted Seides (68), Chris Dixon (10), David Rosenthal (9), Sahil Bloom (8), Avichal Garg (7), Scott Kupor (6), Joelle Kayden (6), Arjun Sethi (5)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 6 mentions in 1 episode
2025 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- Tim Sullivan – Yale's Private Portfolio (EP.456)
- Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2023 3 mentions in 1 episode
2022 80 mentions in 22 episodes 4 per episode
- David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- Sahil Bloom – Creativity, Investing, and Engineered Serendipity (Capital Allocators, EP.249)
- Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- Joelle Kayden – Canvassing the Landscape at Accolade Partners, Venture is Eating the Investment World 7 (Capital Allocators, EP.235)
- Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- Chris Douvos – The LP's Perspective from Ahoy Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 2 (Capital Allocators, EP.230)
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 19 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
- Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
- Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques – Harlem Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.24)
- Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 22 mentions in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Andreessen Horowitz, oldest first
Sep 2, 2019 bullish
Biology Mirrors the State of Computer Science in the Late 1960s
“Biology is kind of where computer science was like late sixties, early seventies, which is we're about to see like this whole new set of technologies that will dramatically change the costs and the automation and the price curves for a lot of these things.”
Sep 2, 2019 negative
a16z Missed Square After Anchoring to Early Funding Valuations
“Square is a company that we saw as early as the very, very first round, and for a variety of reasons just didn't make the decision to invest, and as often happens with these companies that are successful, every round always feels expensive after that”
Sep 2, 2019
Sep 2, 2019 positive
a16z's Post-Investment Platform Team Dwarfs Its Closest Competitor
“Nobody's certainly done it at the scale that we're doing it at, so a big change in the industry over the last 10 years has been that there are more firms that are adding to their post-investment teams, which for a long time was really never part of the makeup …”
Sep 2, 2019 positive
a16z Rejects Consensus Voting to Avoid Reversion to the Mean
“We are decidedly not a consensus organization, so When we started, and Mark and Ben have been very true to this over time, is we said, look, we worry that if you go around the table and you ask people to vote, you end up with reversion to the mean type thinkin…”
Sep 2, 2019 bullish
'Software is Eating the World' Remains a16z's Core Investment Thesis
“So Mark Andreessen wrote this editorial many years ago called Software is Eating the World, and that's basically been our investment thesis for the last 10 years, and I think it will be our investment thesis at least for the next 10 unless the world changes, a…”
Sep 2, 2019 positive
As Capital Democratizes, VCs Must Differentiate Beyond Money
“It's likely to be the case that entrepreneurs will now have more choices of which VCs to work with because there will be capital in lots of different places, and therefore something other than capital will have to be what differentiates one VC from another.”
Sep 2, 2019 neutral
Sep 2, 2019 positive
Founder Velocity and Execution Pace Best Predict Startup Success
“The best predictor of future success is do you actually meet the milestones and deliver on the things that you said you were going to do, and obviously there are some people who are very successful who struggle at the outset, but having that relationship over …”
Sep 2, 2019 positive
Founders Should Pitch 'Conquer-The-World' Ambition Over Downside Risk Mitigation
“The reality is, we achieve diversification through our portfolio. I don't need an individual entrepreneur to achieve diversification for us. It's great to know that there's somebody out there who might buy it, but, like, none of us is playing for that outcome,…”
Sep 2, 2019 neutral
a16z Initially Passed on Airbnb Before Investing at a Higher Valuation
“We did that at Airbnb. You know, we saw the very first round, and we just had lots of questions in our mind that didn't allow us to get there. We ultimately did the next round, but obviously, as you'd imagine, there's a substantial delta between the first roun…”
Sep 2, 2019 positive
Sep 2, 2019 negative
Sequoia's 2008 'Rest in Peace' Doomsday Presentation Was Incorrect
“If you were around here in the valley at the end of oh eight, Sequoia, who's a very well-regarded and has been a very successful firm, Put out this presentation called Rest in Peace, and it had a skull and crossbones and a tombstone on the front of it, and the…”
Sep 2, 2019 positive
Sep 2, 2019 negative
Companies Staying Private Longer Actively Hurts the United States
“I think it's a bad trend for our country. Selfishly, it's very good for people who are investors in or who have access to private capital because I think more and more of that appreciation will accrue there, but it's not a good thing for our country.”
Sep 2, 2019 positive
VCs Should Let Compelling Founders Drag Them Into New Technology Trends
“It's our job to be in front of all the interesting people who think they know what it is, and then for us to meet with them and hopefully be smart enough to allow them to drag us into places that we might not have gone because they've got some really killer id…”
Sep 2, 2019
Sep 2, 2019 neutral
Andreessen Horowitz Manages Approximately 150 Active Portfolio Companies
“On the active companies, about a 150 today, and We've either got a board seat or we've got some substantive investment. We have some seed investments that are smaller where we don't take board seats, but about a 150 active is what we're managing today.”
Sep 2, 2019
a16z Hosts Over 1,000 Corporate Executive Briefings Annually
“We do something here called an executive briefing where probably at least a thousand times a year we have executives from those companies come in, they spend a half a day or a day with us, and the point is for them to kind of get educated on the areas of Techn…”
Sep 2, 2019 neutral
Sep 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 11, 2021 bullish
Dixon: Roughly 10% of top computer science talent is building blockchain apps
“And if you just sort of head count the very smart people that come to us that are in Silicon Valley, that are coming out of top computer science programs, et cetera, Something on the order of 10% of them I would say are building blockchain applications.”
Jan 11, 2021
Dixon: a16z delegates token voting power to maintain protocol decentralization
“We also do this thing we call delegating. We want to make sure that the networks are sufficiently decentralized. And so in some cases, because we were the early venture capital investors, we own a bunch of the tokens. We want to make sure we aren't sort of doe…”
Jan 11, 2021
Jan 11, 2021 bullish
Oct 4, 2021 negative
Sternlicht: Do not blindly trust top VC firms like a16z or Sequoia
“The key to investing is actually doing your own work. Then you triangulate other people's opinions and stuff, but do your own work. And I, the biggest mistakes like you often find when you find Andreas and Horowitz and Sequoia are, they're all in this deal. I …”
Jan 3, 2022 positive
Jan 3, 2022 positive
Rosenthal: Andreessen Horowitz reshaped venture capital through high-velocity seed investing
“And Andreessen was the firm that really got this. It started deploying tons of capital, doing lots of seed investments, high valuations, high capital velocity deployment, and really has reshaped the whole industry around it.”
Feb 14, 2022 positive
Feb 14, 2022 positive
Kayden: Founders favor individual VC partners like Jeff Jordan over firm brands
“And I think founders will tell you that while they do pick firms, they really pick the individual partner. So if you're a marketplace consumer facing company, your number one draft pick is Jeff Jordan at Andreessen Horwitz, and you get a lot of ancillary servi…”
Mar 7, 2022 neutral
Apr 11, 2022 neutral
Andreessen Horowitz operates an in-house consulting agency for portfolio companies
“Andreessen Horowitz takes this to the extreme by having really a big quasi-consulting operation under its own roof. That is there to go off and help entrepreneurs streamline things like, how do you find office space? Well, we've got someone to help with that. …”
Jun 2, 2022 positive
Drogen: Dixon and Wilson build winning crypto tech rather than predict it
“There are a couple of people out there like Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz, Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures that they're making these things. But anybody else, I don't think any of us knows which one is going to win long term.”
Jun 27, 2022 positive
Jun 27, 2022 bullish
Jun 27, 2022 positive
Jun 27, 2022 bullish
Jun 27, 2022
Jun 27, 2022 positive
Jun 27, 2022
Dixon: Backing well-rounded founders leads to mediocre returns
“One of our core frameworks is invest in strengths, not lack of weaknesses. So what that means is look for people with some kind of superpower, but that doesn't mean they have to be well-rounded. The truth is a lot of great people and a lot of great companies h…”
Jun 27, 2022 positive
Jun 27, 2022
Dixon: a16z expects founder perseverance, not guaranteed success
“We don't expect them to win or be successful, but we expect them to try really hard. A pet peeve would be entrepreneurs who just don't keep that covenant. Hey, I'm going to quit my startup and go take this cushy job. When we invest, that's kind of the only thi…”
Jun 27, 2022
Jun 27, 2022 bullish
Jun 27, 2022
Dixon: a16z Crypto operates as an 80-person team with 50 operating specialists
“From an operational point of view, we're a completely independent team. We have 80 people on the crypto team. 13 are on the investment team. Then there's some set of back office and support, and then 50 or so on our operating teams.”
Aug 4, 2022 positive
Feb 15, 2024 positive
Apr 15, 2024 positive
Dixon: Emerging Tech Startups Need at Least a Four-Year Runway
“I think any area where you're kind of an emerging technology area, you need to run things at that kind of four-year horizon, ideally, pretty minimum, because you're just dependent on the moods and sentiment of the broader world and exogenous factors that you c…”
Feb 23, 2026 neutral