Andrew Chen has long been a student, and teacher, of how startups engage their users while managing to amass a slew of new ones.
Today, he espouses his learnings — as a founder and a former Uber exec who led the company’s “rider growth” product teams for several years — to his portfolio companies as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Among these is All Day Kitchens, Clubhouse, Substack and Snackpass.
But to share those lessons more broadly, Chen, who has always been a prolific writer, has also published a brand-new book by HarperCollins titled The Cold Start: How to Start and Scale Network Effects, in which he walks readers through interviews with 30 world-class teams and founders, including from Tw …
