Andreessen Horowitz’s hiring spree continues. On Monday, Erik Torenberg announced that the enormous VC agency had acquired his Turpentine podcast, with him becoming a member of as a normal accomplice.
Torenberg’s podcast focuses totally on interviewing VCs at a wide range of companies about their method to investing. Latest friends 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 together with his podcast, however we’ll see if it modifications route. A16z creates a number of company content material together with its personal podcasts. However the focus tends to be on founders quite than different VCs.
Torenberg is sensible as a rent for a16z, although. Past 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 lately, he work for seven years at firm Village Global. Whereas 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 lately employed former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry and, a number of months in the past, former Marine Daniel Penny