Andrew Chen

Andrew Chen is a technology entrepreneur, investor and author based in San Francisco, and a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. His acclaimed book The Cold Start Problem examines one of the hardest questions in software: how to kickstart a marketplace or a network-effect product so that it gets, keeps and grows its users.

An angel investor and former growth lead at the ridesharing company, Chen writes one of the most-read newsletters on technology and has studied adoption curves and traction across dozens of products. His book is praised for mixing theory with case studies of Uber, Slack, Tinder and others to give founders an actual framework.