Erik Torenberg
Founder of Turpentine podcast network; now GP at a16z running media and network initiatives.
“In an age of endless kind of outreach and interest with AI, the scarce thing is the human endorsement or the human conviction or the human knowledge.”
Source→“Ryan Hoover... co-signed Eric and brought Eric on to become one of the leaders of building the community.”
Source→“It's the Nikita Bier. Like, your friends just answered this question about your strategy, which worked so well three times.”
Source→“a16z acquired Erik Torenberg's Turpentine in 2025 and made him a general partner running media and network initiatives.”
“a16z acquired Erik Torenberg's Turpentine in 2025 and made him a general partner running media and network initiatives.”
AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.