Connie Chan (Andreessen Horowitz) - Career Advice from a VC Pro

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Connie Chan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based technology venture capital firm with $35B in assets under management across multiple funds, where she focuses on investing in consumer technology. Chan joined the firm in 2011 as a deal partner on the investment team before becoming a general partner in 2018. She serves on the boards of Cider, Whatnot, and KoBold. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Chan shares her career and life advice for college students and aspiring venture capitalists.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:05.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.
0:09.0	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:13.0	Welcome Stanford and YouTube communities
0:17.0	to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar at Stanford University. The Entrepreneur Thought Leader Seminar is brought to you by Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurals Students,
0:27.6	and by STVP, the Entrepreneurship Center in the School of Engineering at Stanford.
0:32.6	Welcome everybody. I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford and also the director of Alchemist and Accelerator for Enterprise Startups.
0:41.9	Today we are thrilled to welcome back one of our own Connie Chan.
0:46.4	It is a particular for those of you that are coming to us via YouTube, it's a particularly beautiful day today at Stanford.
0:52.6	Stanford is never, I think, is always the most beautiful when it's sunny the day after a good rain.
0:58.0	And the hills are green, the skies are blue.
1:00.3	And it may just be because Stanford wants to put on its best to welcome back one of its treasured alums.
1:05.5	Connie.
1:07.0	Thank you, guys.
1:16.6	Connie was literally in your seats, except when the seats were in a not as beautiful of a building, which was termed, back in 2005. So Connie is a Bay Area native, grew up in the Bay Area, came to the farm and graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in MSNE in 2005,
1:30.1	and then had a storied set of experiences
1:33.0	before becoming where she is now a general partner
1:35.8	at Andresen Horowitz.
1:36.9	Andresen Horowitz is the famed VC venture capital fund
1:40.4	with over $28 billion under management.
1:43.2	And Connie is, Leads Consumer Technology investing at Andresen Horowitz.
1:48.4	But Connie's path from Stanford to general partner and Andreessen was a varied one.
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