Andrew Chen LinkedIn Posts

❗Attention engineers and builders❗

If you are working on something novel in the games technology realm and would like to connect with founders

The “Dinner Party Asshole” test is a solution to a common problem:

Startups often struggle at pitching their team, even though for the earliest

Here's a common startup situation. A team busts their ass for months building the first version of their product. It's almost done. Now

People learn from social media what’s best in life, and it’s food, travel and fashion, not country, families, and career

(Yes this is a

Do you want $500k to START making the game of your dreams? Email me if you have an idea worth exploring: jmazer@a16z.com

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a16z Games just kicked off a16z SPEEDRUN, our accelerator at the intersection of Tech x Games, to help propel talented founders who are

It's obvious that generative AI will fundamentally reinvent marketing.

Some of this reinvention is obvious: Just imagine content creation costs going to zero, as

Every time you ask the user click you lose half of them.

(AKA why tutorials, splash screens, and lengthy signup flows are a bad

Current messy desk work setup

Apple studio
Mbp
Yeti mic + Jabra engage 75 (helps me concentrate better)
Logitech brio can
Anker phone charger
iPad Pro for zoom

🤮🤮 300k tech workers laid off since Jan 2023, >10% in the past 30 days - it's brutal out there...

Bringing back

You have to be an optimist about your own product, your own startup, and yourself. That's why when you pitch -- whether to

It’s hard to hire well at a new startup. Things can be chaotic, there’s not a lot of process, and decisions are made

I learned today that if you leave your garment bag on a United flight, then walk to their baggage claim station to ask

A few years back, a big group of Nordic founders came by sand hill. When I asked them their biggest learning on the

🚨JOBS JOBS JOBS - REFRESHED TODAY🚨 👇

>>> plz 👍 / ♻️ / 💬 - help get this to folks affected by

The people you attract with referral programs, free trials, coupons, and gamification — folks who are “incentivized” as a broad umbrella category —

Big news! ✨ Starting today, I'm available on Intro to give personalized executive coaching to founders and CEOs. Need someone to act as

I’m on the market for a new car in 2024

Autopilot feels like a must have. Funny how it turned from a fun/cool/experimental feature

Question

What’s your naming scheme for your various devices? (Or if you’re a founder, your naming scheme for conference rooms)

this is one of the most important graphs that I saw in 2023 that has led to behavior change. This is in Peter