DataGravity is poised to transform the storage landscape. The company represents a once-in-a-decade opportunity to create an entirely new category of storage by unlocking the value of data that today sits idle in a storage system. I call the category “Storage Intelligence” and the transformation will be profound. The story starts with DataGravity’s incredible founding…
More »Everything that can be invented has been invented. —Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899 Last month, we gathered 75 of the top CIOs from around the country to discuss the new generation of enterprise software and the redefined role of the CIO. These CIOs are dealing with an unprecedented level of experimentation and…
More »Throughout my career, I’ve been an executive at several tech companies that have revolutionized enterprise computing. I’ve also been an investor and venture capitalist (in the past and currently) focused on finding the next BIG things in tech. But I’ve also been fortunate enough to teach at MIT and Stanford, where I currently teach (during…
More »The world of enterprise infrastructure has been undergoing a fairly dramatic renaissance over the past several years. Where hardware once dictated datacenter capabilities, intelligent software is now the key component in defining and building the new datacenter. For example, you may have previously bought a server by specifying its hardware characteristics, but you can now define…
More »As a former programmer and engineer, I sat in awe as Geoff and Matt presented Meteor at our first meeting. The meeting started normally enough: a brief discussion with the team on their backgrounds, a PowerPoint presentation on what Meteor was up to, a lot of nodding around the room, questions along the way. That…
More »We just invested $100M in GitHub. In addition to the eye-popping number, the investment breaks ground on two fronts: It’s the largest investment we’ve ever made. It’s the only outside investment GitHub has ever taken. Why did we bet the farm on a series A investment? It starts with the four founders: Tom, Chris, PJ…
More »You’ve been CEO of SpiderNet for the past two years and have embraced a very trusting culture among your team. For the most part, you and your team discuss future vision and the team goes off and executes against that vision. You’ve never needed to really manage objectives or goals, simply because the team has…
More »When I first met Suhail Doshi, the CEO of Mixpanel, I was blown away by his passion, focus and vision for his company. Here was a twenty-something, technical founder who articulated the perfect vision for collecting and analyzing user behavior on mobile devices. Not only did he have vision, but Mixpanel was already collecting 4…
More »SpiderNet has been around for a few years and you’ve held many board meetings over this time period. The board meetings have become routine reporting events and you are often forced to spend additional time with each board member after a board meeting to “tell the real story”. You kind of feel that your board…
More »We are delighted to announce that the six General Partners of Andreessen Horowitz, with our families, are all committing to donate at least half of all income from our venture capital careers to philanthropic causes during our lifetimes. The reason is simple. We are fortunate to work with some of the best entrepreneurs and technologists…
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