Andreessen Horowitz is widening its talent pool once again. Today the company is adding Benedit Evans, a long-time mobile analyst and pundit, to its team. He is currently based in London but will be relocating to Menlo Park.
Unlike many who have joined Andreessen Horowitz, Evans is not cut from the same entrepreneur cloth. He has been working in the media and tech industries for 15 years, starting first as a sell-side equity analyst and then moving on to roles at Orange (France Telecom’s mobile operator), Channel 4 and then NBC Universal. Lately, he’s been writing insightful things and crunching numbers for London firm Enders Analysis, focusing mainly on mobile (which is how I came to know him).
He is not joining as a partner but what appears to be an in-house analyst and consultant who will help the team make investments.
“Late last year I spent some time with the Andreessen Horowitz team, and it’s pretty clear that this is one of the best places there is both to see those dents being made but also, given the a16z model, to contribute a little to that process,” he writes in a blog post on his own site. “So I’m happy to announce that in February I’ll be joining a16z in Menlo Park. I’ll continue to analyse the industry in public, here and elsewhere online, but in addition, I’ll now be working with the rest of a16z to find, understand and support great ideas and great companies.”
More to come.
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