Chris Lyons
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Chris Lyons
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Member Board of Trustees
2023 - Current
Board Member
2022
General Partner
2021
Cultural Leadership Fund
2018
Chief of Staff
2013 - 2018
Software is eating the world.
Advisor
2017
Kauffman Fellow, Class 19
2014
Global Advisory Board
2020 - 2022
Founder & CEO
2010 - 2013
PictureMenu helps restaurants easily create 21st century marketing tools. The speed, ease, and convenience of PictureMenu bridges restaurants with their favorite guests. We understand that the heart of every restaurant is within their menu, so we have elegantly designed a service to allow any restaurant the opportunity to create and manage their own mobile menu.
Music Industry Consultant, Certified Mixing & Mastering Engineer, Music Producer
2010 - 2013
Required to transform any artist's creative vision into a respectable audio/visual product. · Professionally mixed and mastered artists music for commercially distribution and national syndication on major radio stations Provided paid services including: Social Media Branding, Industry Consultation, Artist Management, Showcase Bookings, Video Shoots, Website Designs, and album cover artwork Clientele includes 2 Chainz (Good Music) Gucci Mane (Warner Brother Records), Travis Porter (Jive Records), Yo Gotti (J Record), MrLyons (LKE), LA The Boomman (MMI Records), Clay James (1440), DNA, etc.
Chief Technical Officer
2010 - 2012
Managed over $25,000 worth of milestones delivered on time and above company's satisfaction. Practical experience designing websites integrated with mobile apps for iPad, iPhone, Android, and Blackberry markets. Interviewed over 15 software development companies and hired the perfect team for A&D's mobile application project. Constructed entire User Requirements document to increase software development productivity Conceptualized distinct branding strategies for each of A&D's website/mobile applications companies Oversaw all legal decisions including the incorporation of company's first mobile application · Personally envisioned, then designed company's unique daily deals platform · Responsible for developing a profitable revenue model for each of A&D's mobile applications · Drafted Three detailed business plans that outlined marketing, financial projects, and product summaries.
Usher
2008 - 2010