David George
David George is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he leads the firm's Growth Fund, focused on later-stage investments in high-growth technology companies. He is known for backing companies such as SpaceX, Cursor, Databricks, Stripe, Figma, and Anduril, and is a frequent commentator on AI investing strategy, venture return thresholds, and the dynamics of late-stage private markets. Before joining a16z, he spent seven years at General Atlantic leading growth investments in companies including Airbnb, Crowdstrike, Slack, and Uber.
“General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Lead investor in Whatnot.”
Source→“Between 2020 and 2024, top 1% exit started at $10 billion. We updated those numbers in February this year, $20 billion. We just updated them yesterday. It's now at $32 billion. So we've 10x'd over the space of kind of 24 months.”
Source→“Wiz and Cursor, you'd kind of like four, five, six years to get from nothing to, well, $30 billion and then potentially $60 billion.”
Source→“SpaceX IPO and then potentially second half of the year OpenAI and Anthropic — that could be four to $5 trillion of value that's created just by those three companies.”
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