Anne Lee Skates
Anne Lee Skates is the founder and general partner of Parable, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on AI, consumer, and prosumer investments, which she founded in 2024. She previously served as a consumer investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) for nearly five years, where she co-led investments in companies including Whatnot, Cider, Kindred, and Prisms of Reality. She is best known for her focus on consumer technology investing, particularly in areas such as the future of learning, commerce, the creator economy, and consumer AI applications.
“Another articulation of this from my friend Anne Leesgates was just the CEOs who were going through this transitory period... they were working on their business from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. And then trying to do AI from 5 to 8 in the evenings. And what they needed to be doing was the inverse.”
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