Josh Elman
Josh Elman is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) focusing on consumer technology and AI investments. He joined a16z in June 2026 after previously serving as a partner and venture partner at Greylock Partners, where he led investments in companies including Discord, Medium, and Musical.ly. Over his career, he held product leadership roles at Robinhood, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, helping build and scale major consumer technology products.
“Josh says the way out runs through cost: inference prices are early in their decline, so ads and transaction fees start to work as they fall.”
Source→“consumer AI is what I use for my daily life and not necessarily what I expense... persistent and always on and super proactive.”
Source→“It takes a village to build every one of these companies.”
Source→“The person you want to co-sign is the one that's raising a pre-seed round two years from now... they remember you... And of course, I'm going to call her first [for] my pre-seed round.”
Source→“GitHub is arguably a better LinkedIn for engineers than LinkedIn itself.”
Source→“Paki's got 37 companies that he's chosen. He says, these are the companies if you want to get into one into this space.”
Source→“A16z partner Josh Elman talks Apple and consumer AI on the podcast.”
Source→“Siri was actually amazing to earn the right to do a few things for you really well... But when you try to do more things with it, it often couldn't.”
Source→“Everyone wants to retweet and share voices from others, but decided Twitter that the authenticity of the original poster was more important than switching the words to look like they came from your name.”
Source→“Things that I look for in a product are where it has a really clear value that you can describe to somebody... The second is, when that person does go and try it, do they have a good experience?”
Source→“I've just been, I've been blown away by their execution over the number of years... it makes the shopping, when you make your purchase, you feel much more both confident, engaged, and have a connection to what you're buying.”
Source→“Discord was great for people who were trying to come together to play games and engage... it earned the right to be something that you relied on for more.”
Source→“A company like Lovable came out of Sweden, for example, that's just an incredible company.”
Source→“All the things Eleven Lab does... didn't start here in San Francisco.”
Source→“Roblox has been an incredible phenomenon that's continued growing... I think that opportunity is even bigger for so many more types of generated experiences.”
Source→“OpenClaw... that one person wrote by himself almost in his apartment and came up with a whole new way of interacting with models.”
Source→“The single best lesson that I remember from Evan was, hey, we've got a lot of smart people in the building... Let's listen to them. Let's learn. And then when we make decisions, let's make sure we engage with them on our thinking as well.”
Source→“Josh Elman: Partner, Andreessen Horowitz. Josh Elman joined Andreessen Horowitz as a partner.”
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