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At Andreessen Horowitz, I am a partner focusing on games, AR/VR, metaverse, and consumer tech startups. On the side, I’ve written The Cold Start Problem, a best-selling book featuring interviews from the founders/teams behind Slack, Clubhouse, Zoom, Twitch, Tinder, Reddit, Uber, Airbnb, PayPal, and more.
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- Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing
- The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics (80 slide deck)
- Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)
- How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides)
- How to actually calculate CAC
- The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs
- After the Techcrunch bump: Life in the Trough of Sorrow
- Building the initial team for seed stage startups
- The Power User Curve
- A Practitioner’s Guide to Net Promoter Score
- Required reading for marketplace startups: The 20 best essays
- How to interview for your growth team (from execs at Atlassian, Gusto, Hubspot)
- Why “Uber for X” failed: The supply side is king
- Uber’s virtuous cycle. Geographic density, hyperlocal marketplaces, and why drivers are key
- The Next Feature Fallacy: The fallacy that the next new feature will suddenly make people use your product
- Why consumer product metrics are all terrible
- New data shows losing 80% of mobile users is normal, and why the best apps do better