Jeff Jordan
@jeff_jordan
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GP at @a16z - "I'm living in the future so the present is my past"
Bay Area
Joined August 2008
I’ve adored my time working in the technology start-up world, as an operator and an investor. Magic happens with absurdly high frequency here! Now, after 12 years at @a16z, it’s time for the next adventure. To the a16 team, the founders we’ve funded and our LPs – thank you for.
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Our firm (@a16z) has filed an application to register as an investment adviser (still pending). But that doesn’t mean our jobs change. We are and will remain a VC firm. 1/3.
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Big congrats to @8en and the entire @Pinterest team on their IPO milestone. It's been an amazing experience watching the company grow - they only had eight employees when I joined the board! We @a16z can’t wait to see where they go from here! #PINS #PinOn!.
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Congratulations to @apoorva_mehta, @fidjissimo and the entire @Instacart team on becoming a public company! We @a16z have been privileged to be along for the ride. Reflections from our initial investment back in 2014:
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Huge congrats to our friend @horribleharry99 on his Stanford graduation! @buffalobills, you drafted a young man with infinite potential on and off the field!
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This is SO DAMN COOL on so many levels. The vision? The technical accomplishment? The fact that Marc has hair and is talking slowly?! @a16z.
It was in this day in 1994 23 year old Marc Andreessen @pmarca founded a new company called Netscape. In this rare video He predicted a simpler way to access information using a browser would bring just about everyone to the internet. He was right.
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The Rise of a Different Work-from-Home - you can now earn a living from the comfort of your home! The #sharingeconomy has finally arrived! #tech via @a16z.
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I’m thrilled for my new @a16z general partner @conniechan! An extremely well deserved promotion.
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I'm super excited to FINALLY announce @a16z's investment in Shef. Founders @JoeyGrassia and @Alvinsalehi have built a magical product - I liken it to the @Airbnb of food! @ordershef #tech via @a16z.
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Thanks to Marc and Ben for inviting me on to the @a16z team twelve years ago. I was a big time contrarian choice; a GP at a competing VC firm told me that "old operators don't make good investors" to my face in 2011!.
We could never have built @a16z without @jeff_jordan -- @bhorowitz and I will always be grateful beyond words to our partner and friend.
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Airbnb is leveraging its platform to offer free or subsidized housing to medical workers who need safe and convenient places to stay. 1,000 hosts signed up in the first hour.
Airbnb will provide housing for 100,000 COVID-19 responders around the world.
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We at @a16z are psyched to welcome @GVteam, @alphabetincUS, @Uber and @atomico as investors in @limebike's new round of funding!
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Lime is raising $335M!.Read all about our story and the round led by @GVteam, with participation from @alphabetincUS, @atomico, @Uber & @a16z, below. Ride on, #LimeNation! 💚 🛴.
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Our mission always has been -- and always will be -- to back the best tech entrepreneurs, at all stages. 3/3.
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". hard to overstate how big of an impact automation is going to have on society over the next 20 years” @JeffBezos
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Kudos to @conniechan for being about the first person in @a16z to recognize @Pinterest’s uniqueness!.
My partner @jeff_jordan on why he invested in Pinterest 8 years ago: 🥳.
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“The consumer’s intent to buy is much more intense on @Pinterest than other platforms." - Target.
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CEO of @WholeFoods: Weekly online delivery sales thru Instacart have already passed the $1 million mark. http://t.co/r9z4vSyxW3 via @forbes.
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eBay bought PayPal 13 years ago for $1.3 bil. Post spin-off, PayPal alone is projected to be worth $43 bil. Not bad! http://t.co/Z3z3soXbnT.
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Fascinating interview with @mlevchin. "The personal journey of everybody who works for me is my responsibility.”
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It’s been a pleasure supporting the efforts of @tristanwalker and team in building @walkercobrands. Big congrats on their sale to @ProcterGamble!
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“It's now cheaper to order Whole Foods delivery on @Instacart than on @Amazon”. via @businessinsider.
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I am very excited to announce that @a16z has led an investment in @JoinIncredible and I will be joining the board. I look forward to supporting the co’s efforts to build a nursing marketplace that helps aleviate the acute shortage of nurses in the U.S.
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After Amazon/WF announcement, every major grocer in the US had an emergency board meeting and then called @Instacart
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Lime scooters slash amount of vehicle trips throughout Auckland in the past two months: "It found 22 per cent of riders had replaced vehicle transportation with an electric Lime scooter on their last trip". via @nzherald
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Really nice piece on @Airbnb's Belinda Johnson by @jessiwrites “With Belinda, things just get done” #UnderStatement
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I am auctioning off an offer to have coffee with me with all the proceeds going to a charity that's near and dear to our family's heart, @JDRF. Here's the link in case anyone is interested:
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Jobs created by companies of select immigrant Internet entrepreneurs: Sergey Brin=72k. Elon Musk=36k. Pierre Omidyar=13k. Jerry Yang=9k.
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Continuing on with "Marketplace Week". Here are some essays on a variety of aspects of marketplace businesses, from both @a16z folks and others in the start-up eco-system.
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I now have been a full time professional investor for eight years, and my track record as an investor is just beginning to emerge. As one very successful investor (@joshk) once told me, it only matters when you put “moolah in the coolah”.
@jeff_jordan @andre I was being a bit sarcastic. He's in @pagerduty and Jumia too. I saw him on a tech crunch panel talking investing 5 years ago. If a VC with that track record said he's "getting pretty good at this," people would call it a humblebrag. He's already very good.
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As @OpenTable's CEO, fund-raising roadshows were super painful given all of the back-n-forth travel + rote mind-numbing repetition. I recently part of a COVID-era virtual roadshow which was faster, cheaper, more efficient. @NYSE @Nasdaq #SEC, please never go back to the old way!.
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One of the entrepreneurs I support recently dubbed me "the master of marketplaces". But I must admit that I'm learning quite a bit from my @a16z partner @andrewchen's new book, The Cold Start Problem.
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Here is the thinking behind @a16z’s just-announced investment in @JoinIncredible. We believe that large horizontal platforms are susceptible to disruption by highly-focused vertical players who offer an experience tailored to the needs of that vertical.
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We cannot advise you on what to invest in! But we will continue to evolve how we run our business and innovate in supporting the startup ecosystem. 2/3.
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Many think start-ups are easy; reality is they're typically brutally hard. Perceverence is critical. @provenpablo
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We at @a16z LOVE marketplace businesses! It was a lot of fun pulling all of this together. #NetworkEffects.
👇Thread: Marketplace 100. Here's a16z's list of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies -- using credit card data from our friends at Second Measure.
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I LOVE MARKETPLACES!!!
@jeff_jordan is collecting the whole set of awesome digital marketplaces. See why he picked Cadre as his latest:
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I LOVE network effects! @eBay, @PayPal & @OpenTable as an operator, @Airbnb, @Instacart & @offerup as an investor!
Fun discussion with @jeff_jordan & @smc90 on growth, engagement and how other businesses created network effects
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Are we at peak car? "UBS predicts that by 2035, 80% of people will use robotaxis in cities where they are available, and that urban car ownership will fall by 70%."
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Poor metabolic health is a HUGE global problem. The approach Levels is taking feels inspired by the Mark Watney quote in The Martian - "I'm going to science the sh*t out of this"!.
1/ @Jeff_Jordan and I are excited to announce that @a16z is leading @Levels $12M Seed Round to bring biowearables into the mainstream and improve metabolic health.
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I watched PayPal do this with great admiration as the head of To paraphrase Victor Kiam, 'I liked it so much that I bought the company'! The Sharp Startup: When PayPal Found Product-Market Fit by @DavidSacks
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I'm not sure about the "famous" part, but here are some of my thoughts on VC investing. @a16z
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Amazon increasingly at odds with UPS. It will only get worse as they increasingly cherry pick efficient deliveries.
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I had the pleasure of interviewing @andre at the NBA #PlayersTech summit this afternoon. This is one impressive man - he's already getting as good at investing as has long been at hoops. @a16z
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Congrats to @Instacart on their new financing "We don’t hold inventory, we don’t own warehouses, we don’t own trucks" http://t.co/haCPFNvvfh.
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Karen and I got the chance to watch the @buffalobills play in Miami yesterday. We wore @horribleharry99 ‘s jersey in duplicate. It was a ton of fun watching him compete so effectively in “the league”. He’s such an impressive and well rounded young man!
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Wisdom on aging from @SHO_Billions: "Dying in your thirties is tragic. As is forties. sympathy dissipates from there. Fifties is such a shame. Sixties is too soon. Seventies - a good run. And eighties - a life well lived. And nineties - that's a f***ing Hell of a ride!".
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I am really excited to support the efforts of the @neighborstorage team to build a better way to store goods. #sustainability #economicempowerment.
As @pmarca says, "There are no bad ideas in tech, only bad timing.". @Jeff_jordan announces our investment in @neighborstorage, the "Airbnb of storage." Others have made attempts in this market. Here's why the right time for this concept is now.
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A compilation of @a16z thoughts on key start-up metrics. 16 of them, of course! http://t.co/ZglguWVRgJ.
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New op-ed from my a16z partner Marc Andreessen. It's Time To Build!
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An "oldie but goodie" blog post about what to do in a start up when growth slows/stops. .
What to do when the growth stops—@jeff_jordan. ☔️ Drop everything—focus on why.🔑 Involve all key people .🔎 Search maniacally for underlying causes.☝️ Assume the situation is self-inflicted .➗ Divide/conquer to get answers ASAP.🐝 Consider a Plan B.
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“There is a fundamental shift in consumer behavior under way." Malls Reel as Web Roars
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Another data point that e-scooters take cars off of the road: from Portland’s Department of Transportation after their e-scooter trial: "34% of residents and 48% of visitors used a scooter in place of a personal car or ride-hailing app." Go @limebike!
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We at @a16z are very psyched to be supporting the efforts of @TripActions! They are delivering a modern, easy-to-use corporate travel service that both companies and employees love.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised $154M at a $1B+ valuation led by @a16z. Our commitment to delivering a user-friendly business travel platform that companies *and* travelers love is stronger than ever. #letsgo #businesstravel.
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One of our core cultural values at @a16z is "we win as a team". It's great to read about our team in action!.
I'm in the middle of writing an article on how we've made use of our investor network, and I discovered that our team has had meaningful interactions with 94 people on the @a16z team 🤯 . VC with services model = 👌.
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That's a whole lot of pins! @Pinterest surpasses 200 million monthly active users, > 50% outside of U.S. via @FT.
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'#NYTimes asks "Is American Retail at a Historic Tipping Point?" Nope - that was years ago!:
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Getting ready to cheer on @Big_Blake4 this season on the frozen tundra! @packers @StanfordFball #TackleMachine
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The U.S. is falling behind the rest of the world in basic math proficiency. Only 1 in 3 U.S. students currently are proficient in basic math, and this falls to only 1 in 5 if students are experiencing poverty. U.S. math scores rank #30 among 79 countries.
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Four years ago I wrote a blog predicting "The Tipping Point: E-Commerce Version". Feeling pretty good about that prediction about now.
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“The master of marketplaces”?! I'll take it! Incredible Health CEO And Founder Dr. Iman Abuzeid Talks Being Backed By The Venture Capitalist World, Empowering Nurses, And Institutional Racism In Healthcare via @Yahoo.
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Congratulations to @JoinIncredible on its Series B! We’ve long been excited by their vision to accelerate #nursehiring and build / rebuild the healthcare workforce:
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Very nice write up of remarks from my keynote at the Tech in Asia Tokyo 2016 conference this week.
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Extremely good advice for entrepreneurs looking to raise VC $. And in this case it worked very well from @a16z’s perspective. #Investor Go @ImanAbuzeid!.
Founders rarely get an inside look at how to raise VC from the world’s top firms. I’m making public @nfx what we learned raising @JoinIncredible's Series A from @a16z and others:. - Timing of raise.- 30/70 split.- Iterate fast. What’s NOT in the post is CEO psychology:.
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Bay Area Council: “Homesharing may remove a small number of units from the long-term rental market, but this effect is swamped by the number of people who derive income from these rentals and hence are themselves able to achieve affordability” @Airbnb
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Study from @Airbnb on their economic impact. Their guests spend more and spend it locally, helping neighborhoods.
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The music business has a history of different formats coming and going. I've tweeted this before. http://t.co/z8IxGN7PYn.
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We @a16z are enthusiastic about the potential for a new generation of vertical job platforms. And they're needed now more than ever. .
In an era of reduced budgets, hiring freezes, and scores of career-changers, the concept of old-school job boards seems comically antiquated. @DCoolican & @jeff_jordan unpack the rise of "deep" job platforms, which offer features beyond mere job matching:
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'@Pinterest is "trying to build a catalog of ideas for the entire world”. Nice piece by @jessiwrites via Wired.
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Foursquare predicts the exact quarterly same store sales decline for Chipotle. More accurate than equity analysts!
Darn impressive Chipotle first quarter sales estimate by @foursquare on Apr. 12. Foursquare: -30%.Chipotle actual: -29.7% $CMG.
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Thanks, very much appreciated. One of @a16z's cultural aspirations is "we win as a team"!.
@jeff_jordan @fidjissimo @Instacart @a16z Jeff - It's been a real pleasure to work with you and the entire @a16z team. Thank you for being supporters and believers from the very early days.
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I really enjoyed @AnnieDuke's latest book, Quit. She's as good as it gets on analyzing decision making under uncertainty. I've found her insights invaluable in informing my investing approach at @a16z.
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The 'Oh, Shit!' Moment When Growth Stops. Recommendation to growth company CEO's - time to freak out! http://t.co/Ee5OIOcRhL via @recode.
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"I didn't know Silicon Valley existed until I was 24 and that's a problem" @tristanwalker inspiring journey to Valley http://t.co/uoU7uvtpke.
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We agree with you, Ale - thanks for the shout out. For the record, the fine is $10 per minute!.
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Very happy to (finally!) announce @a16z's investment in @joinbelong! Ale and O started this adventure as EIRs at the firm.
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Finally! Very excited to see scooters return to SF. My use of public transit to/from the Peninsula will soon explode given a robust last mile option.
Big news in #SanFrancisco this morning!. "E-scooters are here to stay: SF announces long-term permits for two-wheelers. "
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I’m psyched about @Hipcamp, both as an investment and and a consumer. It solves one of the great pain points of camping - finding a great camping spot that’s available!.
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The team at @pearvc has built a high quality full service early stage VC firm. Icing on the cake is their outstanding hospitality, including some of the best tea I've ever tried!.
I serve Persian tea at our office! It is more than just a cultural gesture. It is an embodiment of my heritage, a piece of my personal story that I brought into my professional world. This simple act of sharing creates an authentic space for conversations. @jeff_jordan 🙏
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