Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

When Marc and I started the firm in 2009, the conventional wisdom in Venture Capital was that in any given year, only 15 companies would ever generate $100M in revenue and those 15 companies would drive almost all of VC returns. Andreessen Horowitz began in exactly this way with a $300M fund and 2 General Partners.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

What position did Dan play on his water polo team? Some incredible VOIP technology infrastructure, a phenomenal team, and actually Keith is around here. And Marc [Andreessen 00:13:54], one of our board members just said, “Hey, so why don’t we acquire those guys? The two teams work really well together.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 27, 2018

First coined by Marc Andreessen in 2007, “product-market fit” was initially defined as “being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.”. You’ve got an amazing idea for a new piece of software or service that you’re confident about developing further, but is the market really ready for your idea?

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Casey Accidental

APRIL 18, 2018

Marc Andreessen says it’s the only thing that matters , and Brian Balfour has an amazing series of posts that talk about how to find it. Every product team tries to make their core product better over time. This last part can be a bit confusing for product teams to understand. And in many teams, it’s still not your job.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The second is developing and sticking to a set of core principles that serve to guide and shape your team, your product and your organization. With software “ eating the world ,” as Marc Andreessen wrote in the WSJ back in 2011, every company was going to be facing these technology-related problems. We had an idea.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

All have benefited from the sage advice of growth expert and Andreessen Horowitz general partner Andrew Chen. After wrapping up nearly three years as Head of Growth at Uber, he’s joined Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner to help build the next generation of great companies. Short on time? Andrew: That’s right.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2020

At this point, it’s clear that Marc Andreessen was entirely accurate with his now famous quote. And all my teams at Rackspace were always huge fans of Stack Overflow, because of all the engineering teams and the product teams and so on. The role has been really phenomenal. Product-led vs. community-led.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

After graduating from high school, he moved out to Mountain View to work at Netscape, the first massive modern internet success story, with Marc Andreessen. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I love media, I love content, and I love the team here. When I go on Tim Ferriss or any of the mainstream media channels, I see Ben Horowitz or Marc Andreessen, and they are fantastically smart, wise individuals, but there are many more. I see all these companies with marketing teams and they’ve got a social media person.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

Secondly, I actually am a Founder driven investor so 90% of my decision or 85% of my decision is based upon the skills and the attributes of the founding team. You don’t have to get to Marc Andreessen. There’s a couple of good learnings for people to take away from that, one is, it doesn’t have to be the GP.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

Acquisitions can help fuel growth, but often go awry when the company fails to explicitly instruct their internal teams to step aside so that the new hires can do their jobs. You have no idea what the people in the management team are really thinking about. The second is employees. How to think about org structure.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JANUARY 8, 2019

In short, Marc Andreessen has been proved right, and his assertion that “software is eating the world ” has well and truly come to pass. Under the hood of every successful SaaS company is a stack of tools which power their teams. According to Aragon Research , sales enablement technology is expected to be a $5B industry by 2021.

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SaaSX

MARCH 23, 2019

When you have a high-performing team, you just know it. So, if it doesn’t feel like you have a high-performing team, you probably don’t. Marc Andreessen. A playbook says why and how we do things as an organization, a department, a team and an individual. We hired poor culture fits.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Ep 272: Dave King is the Head of Marketing at Asana, the work management platform that teams use to stay focused on the goals that grow their business. As for Dave, prior to joining Asana, he led the marketing teams at Percolate, Highfive, and Salesforce Community Cloud. And of course I get to use it every day with my team.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. This post describes my recommendations for SaaS board meetings.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

Gong is my fourth company in a leadership position, I’ve been founding team member of Click Software that brought it from zero to an IPO, that was traditional enterprise software product. We might introduce this, but we haven’t bothered with it so much, so the idea, I think that Andreessen is talking about is different.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * And even just that shift drove a lot of behavior change both with customers and internally with the teams.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Marc Andreessen coined that term, maybe 10 years ago, software is eating the world, meaning software is penetrating everything in the world. And then a question here, are there special terms in your tech team’s NDA that other SaaS companies could learn from? SaaStr Speaker Team: Hi Martin. I don’t think so.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2019

Over the time we have worked together, Paul and I have had countless conversations about things like how to run a product org at scale , how to balance customer feedback on your product roadmap , how to spread a product-first mentality throughout a company, how to maintain design excellence in a fast growing R&D team, and so much more.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. Obviously remote training and distance learning will get a lot of heat going forward, distributed collaboration, anyone who’s doing tools that will get teams working in different ways. So it becomes easier to fund newer companies.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 3, 2019

Marc Andreessen, an American entrepreneur and investor, has introduced the following concept: “Product/market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.” It’s about the whole company, and every team member should participate in its development. Hungry for more insights?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded. If not now, then when?”

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Outseta

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Despite executing the best growth practices, picking the low hanging fruit, and having a great team, they struggle to grow. ” Marc Andreessen defined product market fit as “being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.” In other companies, growth feels much harder. ” — Brian Balfour.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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Kellblog

JANUARY 2, 2024

The big rock is to bring marketing into the unified team. Every time a unified revops team is created an angel gets its wings. Marc Andreessen, in his role as public intellectual, declared that AI will save the world (presumably after software has finished eating it ). Data notebooks as the data app platform.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

In this fireside chat from the American Dynamism Summit , a16z Cofounder and General Partner Marc Andreessen sits down with economist, podcaster, and polymath Tyler Cowen to discuss the state of innovation in America, from recent AI advances to growing support for nuclear power. Marc: Or both. Marc: Yeah.

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