The Curious Engineer

Andreessen Horowitz

2010–2026

155 posts

2026 17

October 2026

  1. New Founder Archetypes in the AI Age
  2. The American Dynamism 50 2026: Production is Deterrence
  3. The New Security Agenda
  4. The Evolving Landscape of Venture Capital Mindsets
  5. Databricks & the Future of the Firm
  6. Let Chaos Reign, and Then Rein In Chaos
  7. a16z Frontier
  8. Superhuman Hardware Design Is The Easy Part
  9. Introducing Securing America’s Infrastructure Foundation

June 2026

  1. New Media
  2. a16z Global

January 2026

  1. College Talent
  2. Podcast Network
  3. Strategic Partnerships
  4. Subscribe for today’s big ideas
  5. News & Content
  6. Bio + Health

2024 2

November 2024

  1. Terms of Use

April 2024

  1. Infrastructure

2023 11

May 2023

  1. Full-Stack Startups in American Dynamism | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Aligning Founder Superpowers with Product Cycles | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Enterprise Startups: Advice on Hiring, Firing, Scaling, and Selling | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. The 16 Commandments of Raising Equity in a Challenging Market | Andreessen Horowitz
  5. Beyond Payments for High-Risk Industries | Andreessen Horowitz

April 2023

  1. American Dynamism
  2. Space Launch: Who, What, and Where We’re Going | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Cultural Leadership Fund

March 2023

  1. Healthtech: Show Your Magic | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Space: A Market Map | Andreessen Horowitz

February 2023

  1. Healthtech x Fintech’s Biggest Prize: The Financial Operating System for Healthcare | Andreessen Horowitz

2022 20

December 2022

  1. Reshore and Restore: Unlocking American Innovation for the 21st Century | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Data: Asset Relativity (and the Case of Bay Area Housing) Updated (2022) | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Serving the Multifamily Real Estate Industry with Software | Andreessen Horowitz

November 2022

  1. Your First Biotech BD Hire | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Escaping Hell’s Flywheel: Building Non-inflationary Distribution Channels | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Building the American Workforce | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. Why America Must Develop Space, and How We’ll Do It | Andreessen Horowitz

October 2022

  1. Titan’s Clayton Gardner on How the Fintech Market is Changing | Andreessen Horowitz

September 2022

  1. Getting Ready to Move Upmarket | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Privacy Policy

June 2022

  1. The Complete Guide to Acquihires | Andreessen Horowitz

May 2022

  1. A Framework for Navigating Down Markets | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. A Conversation: What’s Next in Web3 Games? | Andreessen Horowitz

April 2022

  1. Web3 Security: Attack Types and Lessons Learned | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Decentralized Speed: Advances in Zero Knowledge Proofs | Andreessen Horowitz

March 2022

  1. The NFT Mint ‘Sweet Spot’: Data on Early Decisions | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Privacy-Protecting Crypto Airdrops with Zero Knowledge Proofs | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Zane Lackey | Andreessen Horowitz

January 2022

  1. Sarah Wang | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. How to Build a Better Internet: 10 Principles for World leaders Shaping the Future of Web3 | Andreessen Horowitz

2021 25

November 2021

  1. The Rise Of Many in Consumer Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Jonathan Lai and James Gwertzman | Andreessen Horowitz

October 2021

  1. Our Proposals to the Senate Banking Committee | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. The Age of Tech x Bio: The ‘Industrial Bio Complex’ | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Katherine Boyle | Andreessen Horowitz

July 2021

  1. Bob Swan | Andreessen Horowitz

June 2021

  1. CLF II | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Are we returning to the office? Or is the future remote? | Andreessen Horowitz

May 2021

  1. Chris Lyons | Andreessen Horowitz

April 2021

  1. Coinbase Direct Listing | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. How Tech Stacks Up in B2B | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. My Marketplace Strategy: Go Niche | Andreessen Horowitz
  5. The Market for User Research Platforms | Andreessen Horowitz

March 2021

  1. Marketplace Supply Strategy: Comprehensive, Exclusive, or Curated | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. a16z Slack Debate: Breakout Marketplace Companies and Categories | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Bottom Up Pricing & Packaging: Let the User Journey Be Your Guide | Andreessen Horowitz

February 2021

  1. The Case for Default Insurance | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Breaking Down the Payment for Order Flow Debate | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. On Crypto Governance | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. Sriram Krishnan | Andreessen Horowitz

January 2021

  1. Fintech’s Final Frontier: Central Banks and Disintermediation | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. It’s Not About Video. It’s About Always-on Triage. | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. It’s Time to Heal: 16 Trends Driving the Future of Bio and Healthcare | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. Why a16z Opposes Secretary Mnuchin’s FinCEN Midnight Crypto Rulemaking | Andreessen Horowitz

2020 45

December 2020

  1. 2020: Why a Bad Year Was Good for Security | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. A Year in Fintech in 50 Words | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. The Next Phase of Social? Listen Closely | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. Live, Social, and Shoppable: The Future of Video | Andreessen Horowitz
  5. Six Ways New Social Companies Will Monetize | Andreessen Horowitz
  6. The “$20M to $500M” Question: Adding Top Down Sales | Andreessen Horowitz

November 2020

  1. Power Law for Professors: Why you should put all of your eggs in one basket | Andreessen Horowitz

October 2020

  1. Framework for Decision-Making in a Time of Change | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. The Promise of Payroll APIs | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure: 2020 | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. The Cure for Aging Might be the Cure for Alzheimer’s | Andreessen Horowitz

September 2020

  1. Charting the COVID Effect on Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz

August 2020

  1. Taming the Tail: Adventures in Improving AI Economics | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Building a Better, Blacker Tech Pipeline | Andreessen Horowitz

June 2020

  1. 16 Questions for Selling in COVID-19 | Andreessen Horowitz

May 2020

  1. Crypto Startup School Back In Session: Videos Now Live | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. COVID-19 and the Great Rehiring | Andreessen Horowitz

April 2020

  1. Resources from a16z for Understanding Crypto | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Healthcare Has Left the Building | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Primary Care Needs a New Operating System | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. 35 Fintech Companies Aiding in Coronavirus Relief | Andreessen Horowitz
  5. It’s Time to Build | Andreessen Horowitz
  6. SaaS Businesses Weather Hard Times by Focusing on Efficient Growth | Andreessen Horowitz
  7. Coronavirus is Testing the World. How Do We Test for Coronavirus? | Andreessen Horowitz

March 2020

  1. Planning and Managing Layoffs | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Small Businesses Depend on the Stimulus Package. The Stimulus Will Depend on Fintech. | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Monetization for Gamers in the New Cryptoeconomy | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. The Five Revolutions in Cancer Treatment | Andreessen Horowitz

February 2020

  1. Black History’s Impact on Entrepreneurship | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Credit Karma’s acquisition; FICO’s new scoring system; Better tech for tenants, and more | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Three Questions for Fintech Product Managers | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. When Distribution Trumps Product | Andreessen Horowitz
  5. The New Attack Surface is Your Life | Andreessen Horowitz
  6. Four Paths to Marketplace Success | Andreessen Horowitz
  7. The Marketplace Glossary | Andreessen Horowitz
  8. 16 Things to Know About the 409A Valuation | Andreessen Horowitz
  9. Bio Fund III | Andreessen Horowitz
  10. Persistence, Preparation, and Managing Risk with Alex Honnold | Andreessen Horowitz

January 2020

  1. The Rise of Crypto is Leading to a Safer Internet | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Susan Rice on Leadership During Crisis | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. (Engineered) Food. It’s What’s For Dinner. | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. Inside-Out vs. Outside-In: The Adoption of New Technologies | Andreessen Horowitz
  5. Game Design, Not Gamification, for Great Products | Andreessen Horowitz
  6. Welcome to the Bioengineering Culture Clash | Andreessen Horowitz
  7. Vineeta Agarwala | Andreessen Horowitz

2019 23

December 2019

  1. Our Top 5 Crypto Posts of 2019 | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Our Top 10 Fintech Posts of 2019 | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. A Green Beret’s Journey to Blockchain and Crypto | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. 16 (x3) Books We’re Reading This Winter 2019 | Andreessen Horowitz
  5. What’s Next for the Internet? | Andreessen Horowitz
  6. Announcing Crypto Startup School Instructors | Andreessen Horowitz
  7. Product Zeitgeist Fit: A Cheat Code for Spotting and Building the Next Big Thing | Andreessen Horowitz

November 2019

  1. Amazon’s Revolutionary Retail Strategy? Recycling Old Ideas | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. How to Reverse Engineer Biology | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. The Housing Market is Killing the American Dream | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. Bernard J. Tyson | Andreessen Horowitz

October 2019

  1. Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Biology is Eating the World: A Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz
  3. Which Way Do You Run? | Andreessen Horowitz
  4. State of Play: Six Trends Revolutionizing Games | Andreessen Horowitz
  5. Introducing the Cultural Leadership Fund Non-Profit Partners | Andreessen Horowitz
  6. My New Book, Why I Wrote It, and Where the Money Will Go | Andreessen Horowitz
  7. The Map and the Terrain | Andreessen Horowitz

September 2019

  1. Introducing Hustlin’ Tech | Andreessen Horowitz

August 2019

  1. Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B | Andreessen Horowitz

June 2019

  1. New Book: Secrets of Sand Hill Road | Andreessen Horowitz

May 2019

  1. Investing in the Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 | Andreessen Horowitz

February 2019

  1. Lucky 8 Pieces of Innovation Inspiration from China | Andreessen Horowitz

2018 4

November 2018

  1. How to Engineer Biology | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. 3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto (1 of 3) | Andreessen Horowitz

August 2018

  1. Introducing the Cultural Leadership Fund | Andreessen Horowitz
  2. Crypto and the Evolution of Open Source | Andreessen Horowitz

2017 3

October 2017

  1. The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz

March 2017

  1. Culture and Revolution | Andreessen Horowitz

January 2017

  1. Go-to-Market Boot Camp for Startups: Field Sales | Andreessen Horowitz

2012 2

June 2012

  1. The Struggle | Andreessen Horowitz

January 2012

  1. A Recipe for Growth: Adding Layers to the Cake | Andreessen Horowitz

2011 2

April 2011

  1. Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO | Andreessen Horowitz

March 2011

  1. What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology | Andreessen Horowitz

2010 1

August 2010

  1. Taking the Mystery out of Scaling a Company | Andreessen Horowitz