Sioux Falls, US · Partner
Steven Sinofsky
The firm
Andreessen HorowitzVC firm · US320cheques in 12 months1649all time110ledRounds they were named in
- Rounds
- 1
- Led
- 0
- Disclosed
- $2M
- Active
- 2015
- SochatSeed$2MJoined · +8 investors · historical
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Companies they are listed as backing
Portfolio
Fieldbook- Local Motion
- Sochat
Sugar- Spreadsheet.com
Where they are named on record
Filings
- SEC Form D · Company raisingEverlaw, Inc.Directoron 3 filings · since 2018
- SEC Form D · Company raisingTanium Inc.Directoron 3 filings · since 2015
- SEC Form D · Company raisingProduct Hunt, Inc.Directorsince 2014
Each row is a document a firm filed with a regulator: somebody signed it, and it carries a date.
Their book
One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making
Steven Sinofsky · 2009
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Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy. Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book-written by Microsoft executive Steven…
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AI Inside the Enterprise
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