About Connie 

A Chinese-American born in Pennsylvania and raised in California Bay Area, Connie Chan is a Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz in Silicon Valley. Chan has been with the firm for 12 years and was the first investment professional at Andreessen Horowitz to ever be promoted to General Partner, ending the firm’s long standing rule of 9 years to only hire general partners who had been hired as operators from the outside. Chan invests in early stage consumer startups such as Whatnot, Cider, and KoBold Metals. She leans on her learnings from Chinese startups and macro global trends to guide her investment theses when making investments in the United States. In 2015, Connie’s first blog post on China technology won a Sidney Award from The New York Times. Columnist David Brooks wrote, “If you want a glimpse of technology’s next face, I’d hold up Connie Chan’s post.” In addition to being nicknamed Silicon Valley’s China Whisperer by The Washington Post and CNN, Connie has also been quoted by Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, The Washington Post, Inc, The Economist, Bloomberg, MIT Tech Review, Wired, CNN and the Financial Times. She has been a keynote speaker at The Wall Street Journal D.Live conference and has spoken in front of global leaders. She has been named on Wired's Next 20 Tech Visionary and Fast Company's Most Creative People lists, and was a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. She received her B.A. in Economics and M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.