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.
“He had this startup called TrialPay. He was trying to sell his services to Facebook. And Dan Rose said, Alex, that sounds great, it sounds like you can collect a lot of silver bricks, but I have so many gold bricks I can't even pick them all up.”
Source→“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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