Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
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General Partner @a16z
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Joined June 2013
I'm excited to announce the a16z New Media Fellowship. Or as many people are saying, the Thiel Fellowship for the terminally online. Finding highly functional people who are also very online is hard, so we are creating a fellowship to gather and train them in the art of New
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Some people aren’t just in big roles, they *are* the role. e.g. Tammy at Stripe. Solana at FF. Katherine at AD/a16z. For appropriate roles, recruit people whose natural inclinations fit your business and pitch them "be yourself, just with more support and a stronger platform."
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👟 The best Sneaker Releases and Restocks ON REAL TIME! 👟
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I’m happy to share that we @a16z Growth are leading Harvey’s Series F. Harvey is defining the future of legal work: AI-native, secure, and enterprise-grade, they are already used by over half the AmLaw 100. They have real momentum, with deepening product modules, rising
Harvey has raised a $160M Series F, led by @a16z, with participation from @wndrco, @sequoia, @kleinerperkins, @conviction & @eladgil.
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Stoked to announce our investment in Unlimited. Alex and Tara and team are a force. Watch this space.
We’ve raised a $12M seed to automate construction. 💥 More importantly: 1. We’re revenue generating. 2. Working on large ($250M-$500M) critical infrastructure projects. 3. Already compressing construction timelines from months to days. 4. And building with my best friends. 🥹
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For most of my life, I assumed technology only moved in one direction: Faster, better, cheaper. Progress felt inevitable. But if you look at the industry that once embodied American ambition, that's not happening. Over the past 50 years, our ability to build large
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Arizona knows the TRUTH about the record of Katie Hobbs. Follow @BetterAZWarRoom for the FACTS they won't tell you.
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Elena is brilliant and we are incredibly lucky to have her. Our editorial team is coming together.
Some news…I’m back at a16z, on the new media team! I couldn’t be more excited to be working with @eriktorenberg, @Alex_Danco, and the editorial team, where I’m collaborating with our partners and founders on longform blogging. I’ve spent the majority of my professional life
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Some news…I’m back at a16z, on the new media team! I couldn’t be more excited to be working with @eriktorenberg, @Alex_Danco, and the editorial team, where I’m collaborating with our partners and founders on longform blogging. I’ve spent the majority of my professional life
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Software is eating labor & moats still matter: AI can do cheaply what has never been worth a person's time. Whole verticals have opened up, and unlike in previous product cycles, AI can actually complete work end-to-end. a16z GPs David Haber, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg
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I had a great time chatting with @patrick_oshag on @InvestLikeBest. I've known Patrick since college, and this is the first time we've talked markets and investing at this much depth. The fundamentals of company building haven’t changed: people, products, and markets matter.
.@DavidGeorge83 leads @a16z Growth, which has backed some of the most successful technology companies including Stripe, SpaceX, Waymo, Databricks, Figma, OpenAI, and Cursor. This conversation is a detailed look at how David built and runs the growth business. He shares how they
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.@DavidGeorge83 leads @a16z Growth, which has backed some of the most successful technology companies including Stripe, SpaceX, Waymo, Databricks, Figma, OpenAI, and Cursor. This conversation is a detailed look at how David built and runs the growth business. He shares how they
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We should celebrate public safety as much as we do defense. Fund the police. Make public safety a basic human right. Regular people of all ages should be able to comfortably and happily and completely safely walk the streets of every American city 24/7 with no risk at all.
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Conventional wisdom turns out to be often wrong . . .
.@bhorowitz says CEOs who can't read people don't become Mark Zuckerberg. Your image of the genius founder: socially awkward, can't read a room, pure technical mind. Wrong. @a16z @ShaanVP @thesamparr
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A quiet, profound moment from Novak Djokovic on Piers Morgan Uncensored that stops you in your tracks. Piers asked the question almost no athlete ever wants to face: “When you retire one day… how would you like to be remembered?” Djokovic paused, looked away for a second,
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"The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego—your need to possess and control—and transform you into a generous being. The
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a16z always intended to be a media empire. This is the story of how it was built. As one of a16z’s earliest employees, Margit Wennmachers laid the foundations for a16z’s marketing operation. In this conversation with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, she shares stories of
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Has the best time chatting with @collision on Cheeky Pint!
Nuclear power is making a comeback. @juliadewahl joins to describe how Antares is starting with micro-reactors providing power for the US military in hard-to-reach places.
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Inspired by this exceptional event, I'm going to host a basketball tournament next year. DM me if you should be there.
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Marc Andreessen: “The person who writes down the thing has tremendous power.” “There are so few people who will just write down the thing.” Source: @pmarca on How I Write with @david_perell
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Yafah Edelmen and David Owen of Epoch AI reveal why AI could solve the Riemann hypothesis in 5 years, and what 30% GDP growth actually looks like. They explain why "energy bottlenecks" are just companies complaining about paying 2x for power instead of getting it cheap and the
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