@andrewchen

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These days, I’m an investor at Andreessen Horowitz, where I focus on consumer products, marketplaces, and bottoms up SaaS. Previously, I led growth teams at Uber. I’ll share from these experiences, and more, on my newsletter.

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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