andrew chen

🇺🇸 a16z speedrun

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

Original quote:

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes. When they do not love us, they forgive us nothing, not even our virtues." - Balzac

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

When users love us, they forgive us everything, even our bugs. When they do not love us, they forgive us nothing, not even our free credits
-Balzac or someone like that

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

@thatguybg Congrats to you and team!!

[a16z @a16z]

https://t.co/maFczBPtvZ

[Rose Johnson @roseajohnson]

Last chance to sign up for our founder <> VC networking platform! https://t.co/Au2MTLJ35n

How it works:
- Founders register and tell us what they're building
- Investors browse and contact founders directly if they're interested in connecting.

There are already 1,500+ founders on the platform in AI Infra, deeptech, fintech, bio/health, consumer, and more. Plus hundreds of top VCs.

This is only live during Tech Week, so if you're a founder or investor, register today!

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

@sanjayamirthraj @fliptexts @a16z @speedrun @notolegv @ajiang_xyz Very excited to work together!!

[Litong Deng @_litongdeng]

Students are failing UC Berkeley CS classes at an alarming rate. More than 35% of students failed CS 10, a course described as “a gentle but thorough introduction to computer science.” In the past few semesters, less than 10% of students failed the class.

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

@jkhamehl @skupor Haha on the GRWM. I’d watch that!!

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

@KatiaAmeri So many great speakers and get togethers - really nice to see the community get together!

[Keith Rabois @rabois]

Very excited to invest in the highest potential consumer application of AI since ChatGPT.

[David Haber @dhaber]

The best founders don't end up in New York by accident. They come because this is where the hardest problems, the biggest customers, and the highest stakes are. The city demands you build something real.

I've always believed the best opportunities live between fields of expertise — not inside any single industry, but at the intersections. No city in the world has more intersections than New York. Finance and media. Healthcare and technology. The customers who need AI to actually work — banks, hospitals, newsrooms, asset managers — are all here, within a few miles of each other.

AI adoption is accelerating faster than any cycle I've seen. Per @PitchBook, AI is now 65% of NYC venture deal value, up from 16% six years ago. Early-stage funding hit $8.9B in 2025, up 50% in a year. Active unicorns: 32 in 2019, 159 today.

The infrastructure of a generational tech hub is being built in real time.

We're still early. The biggest deals haven't happened. The companies that define applied AI haven't been built.

The founders who build them will be ambitious. They'll want to be where the problems are.

They'll be here.

NY @Techweek_ starts today. Come build 🗽

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

@TheeJonFields @spencerpratt This is like saying YouTube is UGC slop just because a YouTube video is not as good as a cinematic film. These AI videos are getting crazy engagement, and it’s moving the conversation. You can call it slop, but results are everything

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

Historic moment happening via AI right now in the LA mayoral race - there’s been amazing use of AI video gen with viral new clips getting dropped every few days. It might literally let @spencerpratt win a major city election starting from behind

More important this is very much the preview of what the future looks like. At the moment, you might know that election budgets are insane. They’ll raise $50-100m for a big city/state race, then immediately turn around and spend 90% of it on TV advertising, mail etc. why? The audience is the boomers that vote, not nerds

But this will change and evolve. The voting population is getting more digitally savvy. AI videos generated by voters will dominate with ad spend meant to boost but not supplant the viral content. Daily viral AI video battleground. Gonna be wild.

Voter generated content not UGC :)

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

@sawinyh @spencerpratt It sort of reminds me of the debate people had many years ago about whether to go hard on the internet versus not, and on social media versus not. This is just the next obvious battleground

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

@SamJWasserman @spencerpratt Great work!

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

@lucky_z2 def a dream job for many :)

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

@lucky_z2 congrats Lucky + team, so excited to be working together on this

[Katia Ameri 🗽 #NYTechWeek @KatiaAmeri]

it's officially day 1 of New York Tech Week! 🥳

We’re kicking off the week with the opening party hosted by gamma and a16z, alongside the a16z speedrun pitch day. Today’s lineup features tracks from ibm, deel, fenwick, pwc, vonage, and cloudflare, plus sessions with stripe, slack, and microsoft.

here’s what’s happening on day 1:

a16z & friends
• 4:00 PM - Pitch Day (a16z speedrun)
• 6:00 PM - Supper Club (Stripe x a16z)
• 6:30 PM - Kickoff Party (Gamma x a16z)

early morning & resets
• 7:00 AM - Park Run (off labs)
• 8:00 AM - Agents Meet (Walnut AI)
• 8:30 AM - TechWalk (TechWalk)
• 9:00 AM - House Mixer (Mercury)
• 10:30 AM - Cafe Kickoff (Kamp)

ai labs & tech giants
• 10:30 AM - Quantum Computing (IBM)
• 11:00 AM - AI PopUp (ElevenLabs)
• 12:30 PM - AI Voice Lunch (Vonage)
• 12:30 PM - Generative Computing (IBM)
• 2:00 PM - Agent Engineering (IBM)
• 3:30 PM - Context Engineering (IBM)
• 4:00 PM - Kickoff (Deel)
• 4:00 PM - AI Hypergrowth Hack (Mostest)
• 5:00 PM - Multi-Model Workflow (Cloudflare)
• 5:00 PM - AI at Work (Slack)
• 5:30 PM - Rooftop Cocktails (IBM x Tech:NYC)
• 7:00 PM - AI Founders (Microsoft)

venture capital & pitch showcases
• 9:30 AM - Women in AI (Fenwick)
• 11:00 AM - Investor Lunch (Actuate)
• 11:30 AM - Series A Raising (SVB)
• 1:00 PM - AI Vibe-Coding (Mucker)
• 2:30 PM - Search Panel (Mucker)
• 2:30 PM - AI Finance Lunch (PwC)
• 4:00 PM - M&A Panel (TRV x AWS)
• 6:00 PM - Venture Night & Pitch (UATech)

deep tech, defense & industry
• 3:00 PM - Defense Panel (VC in DC)
• 4:00 PM - US Manufacturing (Orrick)
• 5:00 PM - RL Workshop (Adaptive ML)
• 6:00 PM - Robotics Software (NY Robotics)

full schedule at https://t.co/f9USm0YYwK

follow @techweek_ for live updates on New York Tech Week!

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

@dhaber Amazing week planned!!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

The thing is, it’s actually really good advice.