Hi, I'm a writer at a16z, where I'm building the new Profiles of the Future series. Two of the first issues I co-authored:
- SpaceX & the Sentient Sun, with Marc Andreessen
- Databricks & the Future of the Firm, with Ben Horowitz
Before a16z, I was the co-founder & CEO of Perch, a kind of "Spotify for reading" that aggregated all long-form writing on the internet. We pivoted to Perch after building gm.xyz, one of the first decentralized social networks. We were backed by Alexis Ohanian's 776, Naval Ravikant, and Balaji Srinivasan. The startup ultimately didn't work, but you can read more about why I thought it was worth working on here:
I also created the Startup Archive and Founders' Tribune as side projects.
Before working on my own startup, I was a software engineer at Commonstock, which was acquired by Yahoo. And before that, I was a hedge fund analyst at Chatham Asset Management.
— Mike