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Every Company Is Realizing they are a Media Company
Looking to the future, and emerging from the quarantined haze of 2020, Andreessen Horowitz’s Margit Wennmachers announced that they would be, “building a new and separate media property about the future that makes sense of technology, innovation, and where things are going.”
Building upon their existing network of podcasts, a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), one of Silicon Valley’s illuminated venture capital firms, welcomed Sriram Krishnan to the team just days ago, bringing in-house as a Partner, one of social media’s most well-regarded professionals.
We want to be the go-to place for understanding and building the future, for anyone who is building, making, or curious about tech.
- Margit Wennmachers, a16z
Venture capitalists embracing and oriented to media is certainly not unheard of; Geekdom Fund’s Michael Girdley is a wonderful follow on Twitter, Gotham Gal joanne wilson’s articles are brilliant, and First Round Capital’s Review is well known as must read material, to name but a few. I’m sure you can list the great book authors, podcasts, and other social media profiles with investors behind the keyboard; Andreessen Horowitz’s announcements mark a substantial shift that companies have evolved through this past year — realizing it’s the media business that tells the stories and…
