Andrew Chen
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.
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- at work, makes sense you have agents effectively represent your CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, etc. -- then supervised by a COO agent What's the equiv for your personal?… 4 Sept 2026
- i'd pay 2x for an iPhone where siri/dication/other AI features actually were good 4 Sept 2026
- GTA7 is gonna be sick 3 Sept 2026
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- Pretty clear we're about to get a VR comeback, no? 3 Sept 2026
- 2012: just add chat/DMs to your mobile app! 2026: just add notetaking to your AI app! 3 Sept 2026
- 10x AI slop cannon > 10x engineer There I said it 3 Sept 2026
- Before AI: - hardware is hard - teams > solo founders - technical founders only - PhDs build tech in search of a problem - hot SaaS startups get 100x ARR multi… 1 Sept 2026
- Post-AI video game development will either be three.JS or world models 31 Aug 2026
- Coding in 2026: 100x side projects 0x actually shipping side projects 30 Aug 2026
- anyone set up a bluetooth ring that triggers voice transcription / @WisprFlow? 29 Aug 2026
- Hyperstition requires this to be in the Presidio 28 Aug 2026
- 👇 we're paying for 20 folks to fly in across the world to attend SF Tech Week in Oct and attend our special events focused on global founders details below 26 Aug 2026
- there’s daily active user, and there’s hourly active user every product with high-retention HAUs end up being worth a trillion dollars 26 Aug 2026
- lazymaxxing agentic coding: When i have multiple agents working on the same code repo, if there's conflicts/overlaps, they just figure it out amongst themselve… 24 Aug 2026
- What's scarce in one era may not be scarce the next 24 Aug 2026
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The Cold War: A New History Liked
Concise summary of the Cold War from the end of WW2 to the fall of the USSR.
andrewchen.com 2024-01-03
Solaris Liked
Classic scifi. Guy shows up on a research station above a planet with a strange (alive??) ocean
andrewchen.com 2024-01-03
Chip War Loved
Great history of the semiconductor industry, starting in Silicon Valley and ending in Asia.
andrewchen.com 2024-01-03
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Elon Musk Mixed on
The back half is kind of a hit piece on his Twitter acquisition in way way too much detail
andrewchen.com 2024-01-03
Tokyo Vice Mixed on
it’s fun but I think a lot of it probably made up. Still fun.
andrewchen.com 2024-01-03
Outlive Liked
Sadly this book convinced me to start running again, and to begin amateurishly cycling when I have time.
andrewchen.com 2024-01-03
The Opium War Read
I’ve started to do a China history deep dive and this was on the list
andrewchen.com 2024-01-03
Superintelligence Mixed on
the back half I think it goes off the rails and makes a ton of assumptions
andrewchen.com 2024-01-03
Black Wave Liked
This reframes a lot of the conflict over the past decades as a rivalry between Iran/KSA
andrewchen.com 2024-01-03
The Mirage Factory Liked
Nice history of Los Angeles starting from 100+ years back
andrewchen.com 2024-01-03
Area X Read
Reading the book ahead of time, before I see the movie!
andrewchen.com 2018-01-31
The One Device Read
Didn’t read this yet, but I love these recent tech history books.
andrewchen.com 2018-01-31
Principles Read
Reading this because everyone else is too :) Lots of insights/lessons from Ray Dalio
andrewchen.com 2018-01-31
The Ascent of Money Liked
Traces the history of money, the role it’s served over time, and the development of some of the major aspects of our modern financial system.
andrewchen.com 2018-01-31
Reset Liked
Venture Capitalists at Work Liked
I found this much more compelling than many of the other books I’ve read on VCs, which remain a bit too high-level and adulating.
andrewchen.com 2018-01-31
Superforecasting Liked
Lots of interesting learnings and relevant to those making startup investments also!
andrewchen.com 2018-01-31
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- at work, makes sense you have agents effectively represent your CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, etc. -- then supervised by a COO agent What's the equiv for your personal?… 4 Sept
- i'd pay 2x for an iPhone where siri/dication/other AI features actually were good 4 Sept
- GTA7 is gonna be sick 3 Sept Quoting@mattshumer_GPT-6 Astra built this Manhattan world in Unreal Engine over the course of a week. It was literally able to go street by street to make eac…
- Pretty clear we're about to get a VR comeback, no? 3 Sept Quoting@DimillianAstra is very good at 3D modeling, and I can't wait for all of you to experience it, for now here is a little walkthrough on how I built th…
- 2012: just add chat/DMs to your mobile app! 2026: just add notetaking to your AI app! 3 Sept
- 10x AI slop cannon > 10x engineer There I said it 3 Sept
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- Before AI: - hardware is hard - teams > solo founders - technical founders only - PhDs build tech in search of a problem - hot SaaS startups get 100x ARR multi… 1 Sept
- Post-AI video game development will either be three.JS or world models 31 Aug Quoting@threejs15M npm downloads / week 🚀
- Coding in 2026: 100x side projects 0x actually shipping side projects 30 Aug
- anyone set up a bluetooth ring that triggers voice transcription / @WisprFlow? 29 Aug
- Hyperstition requires this to be in the Presidio 28 Aug Quoting@WhiteHouseBREAKING: President Donald J. Trump just signed an Executive Order establishing a new federal academy, THE UNITED STATES SPACE ACADEMY. 🚀�…
- 👇 we're paying for 20 folks to fly in across the world to attend SF Tech Week in Oct and attend our special events focused on global founders details below 26 Aug Quoting@tkexpress11it’s live! we’re flying 20 top builders from around the world to San Francisco for Tech Week Oct 5-11th Applications for the Global Founder…
- there’s daily active user, and there’s hourly active user every product with high-retention HAUs end up being worth a trillion dollars 26 Aug
- lazymaxxing agentic coding: When i have multiple agents working on the same code repo, if there's conflicts/overlaps, they just figure it out amongst themselve… 24 Aug
- What's scarce in one era may not be scarce the next 24 Aug
- The Mirage Factory 3 Jan 2024 Liked
- Black Wave 3 Jan 2024 Liked
- Superintelligence 3 Jan 2024 Mixed on
- The Opium War 3 Jan 2024 Read
- Outlive 3 Jan 2024 Liked
- Tokyo Vice 3 Jan 2024 Mixed on
- Elon Musk 3 Jan 2024 Mixed on
- Chip War 3 Jan 2024 Loved
- Solaris 3 Jan 2024 Liked
- The Cold War: A New History 3 Jan 2024 Liked
- Superforecasting 31 Jan 2018 Liked
- Venture Capitalists at Work 31 Jan 2018 Liked
- Reset 31 Jan 2018 Liked
- The Ascent of Money 31 Jan 2018 Liked
- Principles 31 Jan 2018 Read