Connie Chan is a Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz in Silicon Valley. Chan has been with the firm for 12 years and was the first investment professional at Andreessen Horowitz to ever be promoted to General Partner, ending the firm’s long standing rule of 9 years to only hire general partners who had been hired as operators from the outside. Chan invests in early stage consumer startups such as Whatnot, Cider, and KoBold Metals. She leans on her learnings from Asian startups and macro global trends to guide her investment theses when making investments in the United States. She has been named on Wired's Next 20 Tech Visionary and Fast Company's Most Creative People lists, and was a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. She received her B.A. in Economics and M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.