Alex Rampell
Alex Rampell is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm's Apps practice. He is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded multiple companies including Affirm, TrialPay, and FraudEliminator before joining the venture capital firm in 2015. He is best known for his expertise in fintech, payments, and e-commerce, and for coining the term O2O (online to offline). He holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard University.
“Alex Rampell articulates a sweeping thesis about the three eras of software: first, digitizing filing cabinets (Sabre, PeopleSoft, QuickBooks); second, bundling financial transactions to expand addressable markets (Toast, Stripe); and third — and most transformative — software that actually does the work.”
Source→“"It's not like, oh, AI is going to take the jobs. In many cases, you can't find somebody. This is the part that people don't realize."”
Source→“Alex Rampell from Andreessen... he says you want to be in markets which are Greenfield... essentially markets where there's a huge amount of net new customers created every single year.”
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