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Frank Chen

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Belmont, California

Overview 

Frank Chen is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, with a background in managing services, product management, and user interface design. He has held executive roles at companies like HP Software and Opsware, and has invested in successful companies like Apollo GraphQL and Drishti. Chen's career highlights include serving as VP of Products & UI Design at HP Software and Opsware, as well as investing in companies at various stages and sectors, such as Series A and B in Messaging, Security, and BioTech, among others.

Work Experience 

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Andreessen Horowitz

  • Partner

    2009 - Current

    Helping entrepreneurs build software companies that are eating the world

Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.

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HP Software

  • VP of Products & UI Design

    2007 - 2009

    My company Opsware was acquired by HP Software in August 2007.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud company that uses comprehensive solutions to accelerate business outcomes.

Raised $1,350,000,000.00.

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Opsware

  • VP of Products and UI Design

    2003 - 2007

    Leads the (inbound) product management, (outbound) product marketing and user interaction (UI) design team which defines, markets, and ships Opsware™ automation software, now part of HP Software. Focus on defining the capabilities of the overall product offering through clear, compelling, and up-to-date PRDs, UI designs, product roadmap, and other documents. Enables the sales force to compete effectively to close enterprise deals.

Loudcloud

  • Sr. Director, West Coast Operations

    2001 - 2003

    Built and managed infrastructure-as-a-service for marquee brands such as Fox News, Fox Sports, Nike, Fandango, Blockbuster, and others. Managed awesome customer-focused team of project managers, system administrators, and system architects.

Respond.com

  • VP of Product Development

    1999 - 2001

    Hired and managed a team of user experience designers, graphic designers, product managers, HTML producers, writers, and editors for this consumer-facing Web site

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Netscape Communications

  • Director of Product Management

    1995 - 1999

    Led a cross-functional team that defined, shipped, and marketed Netscape’s award-winning LDAP directory (Netscape Directory Server) and security products (Netscape Certificate Server)

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Oracle Corporation

  • Product Manager

    1994 - 1995

    Deployed Oracle Media Server software at Tele-TV and Bell Atlantic Video Services. Eventually transitioned to do product management for Oracle's interactive TV software suite.

Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.

oracle.com
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GO Corporation

  • Senior Technical Writer

    1992 - 1994

    Wrote PenPoint Software Developer's Kit documentation

GoNet Systems provides Wi-Fi solutions for indoor & outdoor deployments of 3G/4G data offload, Wi-Fi access, and enterprise networks.

gonetworks.com

Education 

Investments 

Apollo GraphQL

Series C

Total funding: $150M

Drishti

Seed

Total funding: $37M

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