Jonathan Lai

CEO

Menlo Park, California, United States17 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led investment in AI-native applications
Spearheaded Tencent's WeGame launch
Produced Riot Games' developer platform

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capitalist with expertise in Gaming and AI-driven applications.

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Core Skills

Venture CapitalProduct ManagementBusiness DevelopmentStrategic PlanningFinancial Analysis

Other Skills

Project ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipAPI DevelopmenteCommerceMergers & AcquisitionsMobile DevicesMobile ApplicationsStrategyStart-upsBusiness StrategyValuationFinancial ModelingE-commerce

About

I'm a general partner at a16z, where I lead our investment team focused on a16z Speedrun. I believe AI is redefining how we socialize, play, & work over the next century, and am excited to invest in the next generation of AI-native apps and developer tools Twitter: @Tocelot Writings: http://www.jonlai.co/

Experience

Andreessen horowitz

2 roles

General Partner

Promoted

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

partner to: Fundamental Research Labs, Hedra, Flora, Nexxa AI, Pencil.dev, Axon Labs, Fearn, Runware, Nunu AI, k-ID, Raid Base, Odyssey Interactive, Overwolf
prior: Parsec (acquired by Unity), Roblox (IPO), Ready Player Me (acquired by Netflix), RTFKT (acquired by Nike), Lowkey (acquired by Niantic), Singularity 6 (acquired by Daybreak)

Product ManagementVenture CapitalBusiness DevelopmentStrategic Planning

Partner

Aug 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Consumer investment team

Tencent

Senior Director, Business Development

Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 · 4 yrs · Palo Alto, CA

Led the North America publishing & investments team for world's largest video game publisher
Investments: Epic Games, Discord, Proletariat, Red Hook, InXile, Stoic Studio, & many more
Games published: Don't Starve, Slay the Spire, Hollow Knight, Firewatch, Pyre, & many more
Spearheaded the launch of WeGame, Tencent's premium Western games platform (>20M MAU)

Business DevelopmentFinancial AnalysisStrategic Planning

Riot games

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs · Santa Monica, CA

Producer for studio behind League of Legends (acquired by Tencent). Products shipped:
Riot developer platform and API (http://developer.riotgames.com)
Riot eCommerce store (http://merch.riotgames.com)
Virtual currency platform (http://nyti.ms/1BvsofU)

Product ManagementCross-functional Team Leadership

Crosslink capital

Venture Capital Associate

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs · San Francisco, CA

Digital media and SaaS investments for a $1.8B growth equity fund. Deals include: Pandora (IPO), Carbonite (IPO), Hi5 (acquired)

Venture CapitalFinancial Analysis

Morgan stanley

Investment Banking Analyst

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs · Menlo Park, CA

Corporate finance / M&A advisory for technology companies. Deals include: Mubadala $622M investment in AMD, McAfee $350M acquisition of SafeBoot, Netezza $134M IPO

Financial AnalysisMergers & Acquisitions