Andreessen Horowitz’s hiring spree continues. On Monday, Erik Torenberg introduced that the enormous VC agency had acquired his Turpentine podcast, with him becoming a member of as a common accomplice.
Torenberg’s podcast focuses totally on interviewing VCs at quite a lot of corporations about their strategy to investing. Recent visitors embody Accel’s Andrew Braccia, Seven Seven Six’s Alexis Ohanian, and Benchmark’s Sarah Tavel and Eric Vishria.
Torenberg mentioned he plans to proceed along with his podcast, however we’ll see if it modifications route. A16z creates loads of company content material together with its personal podcasts. But the main focus tends to be on founders relatively than different VCs.
Torenberg is smart as a rent for a16z, although. Beyond the pod, he was an early worker at Product Hunt, and has been a profitable angel investor and professional VC within the years since. Most just lately, he work for seven years at agency Village Global. While there, he helped launch On Deck, a program that trains wannabe founders. His investments embody Scale AI, Lattice, Figma, Perplexity, Replit, Flexport, and others, he says.
So he’s a reasonably basic a16z rent. The enterprise agency additionally just lately employed former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry and, a number of months in the past, former Marine Daniel Penny
