The leaders of Andreessen Horowitz believe that experience is the best teacher. So the best venture capitalists are ones with first-hand experience founding companies, people who have “been through the war,” as Marc Andreessen puts it.
The firm’s newest general partner, Alex Rampell, certainly passes that test. Mr. Rampell, 34, has founded or co-founded seven start-ups, by Mr. Andreesen’s count, including the shareware software Mr. Rampell wrote in 1996 as a high-school student, AlwaysOnline. It […]