Lisha Li
Lisha Li is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she invests in the frontier AI model stack, including models, infrastructure, and developer tooling. She joined a16z in March 2026 after serving as CEO of Rosebud AI, an AI-powered game and creative app platform she founded in 2019. She holds a PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley and previously worked in investing at Amplify Partners and in data science at Stitch Fix.
“for a human, you're like, well, I only have a limited amount of time. And if after so many steps, it is still not clear... it's not clear that the risk reward is not good enough. Whereas for GPT, okay, a human told me to do this. Let's just do this.”
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