Andrew Chen

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Excited for a16z Speedrun to be hosting Boston Tech Week in May 2026!!! Starting to meet with startups, VCs, and scouting venues. Planning on hundreds of events with thousands of founders, enginee...

come work with me at the best venture capital firm in the world we're hiring for a bunch of roles at a16z speedrun - details below

ai-native education is one of the most mission-driven, most impactful things we can build in the coming years!

check out this chart -- the majority of seed rounds go to startups in SF and NY (and really, mostly SF) (we'll be dropping a report on "the state of seed" from Carta tomorrow on our official subst...

Welcome Kenan Saleh to the a16z Speedrun team!! Follow Kenan Saleh to hear more of what we’re doing on the team, his experiences starting his prior company (exiting to Lyft), and much more.

👇🏼we’re hiring on the tech week team! Come work with me while we build the ecosystems in SF, NY, BOS, and LA

Folding laundry is the Turing test of robotics

What’s a bigger miracle? That we give young people, often with no experience / no track record, millions of dollars within minutes of meeting them Or that the founders take the $ and work 100+ ho...

👇🏼 2026 dates for Tech Week, including newly announced Boston dates!

One of the changes I've made in my computer interaction has been to do a ton more voice dictation over the last few years, now that new AI models have made the experience so much better. Curious if...

One of the changes I've made in my computer interaction has been to do a ton more voice dictation over the last few years, now that new AI models have made the experience so much better. Curious if...

SHOWING TRACTION BEFORE YOU HAVE TRACTION Everybody knows that startups thrive when they have “real” traction — that is revenue, active users, great retention curves, and a fast growth rate. Howev...

👇🏼we’re making an important hire to the a16z Speedrun talent team focused on early career talent funnel. I’ll be directly working w this person as part of some new initiatives! Please recommend fol...

Speedrun demo day, behind the scenes! Thanks to all the investors and friends who came out, and for the amazing work by our founders Standing room only, the pitches crushed

Day 1 of sf tech week wrapped Speedrun demo day tomorrow…

TECH WEEK IS ALMOST HERE! Starting next week, @techweekbya16z takes over SF/LA There are almost 2,000 events on the calendar making this the biggest Tech Week yet. NYC was the biggest for two con...

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TONIGHT AT 11:59PM IS THE DEADLINE!

LAST CALL FOR A16Z SPEEDRUN 2026: you've got two options in life: 1/ build for yourself 2/ build for someone else (as a wise account once said). Those of you who have been following our work at...