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Three Design Exhibitions We Can’t Stop Thinking About from Paris Art Week

Nov 5, 2024 | sightunseen.com | Jennifer Li

11.05.24 Fair Report by Jennifer S. Li Amidst the spectacle of Art Basel Paris at the Grand Palais (the historical World’s Fair venue of 1900 that also hosted the Olympics this past summer) and its many satellite fairs across the city during Paris Art Week, three quieter design-focused exhibitions stole our hearts; it’s three weeks later, and we still can’t stop thinking about them.
Millburn High School Students Make Impact with Summer Tutoring and Philanthropy

Jun 18, 2024 | tapinto.net | Jennifer Li

A group of Millburn High School students is reaching out to the community through their organization, Impact Learners. Founded in early 2023, Impact Learners offers summer tutoring services for students in grades 6-9 across various subjects. Their initiative aims to foster academic excellence while making a positive difference through charitable efforts.
How Generative AI Is Remaking UI/UX Design

May 14, 2024 | a16z.com | Jennifer Li |Yoko Li |Bryan Kim |Martin Casado

As former developers and product managers, we’ve lived the grueling dance between designers and developers, where questions such as “Is this design technically feasible?” and “Can you add another screen for this step?” take place in every meeting. All too often, this aspiring creative exchange resulted in a Jira-filled, time-consuming process comprised of iterations, compromises, and, ultimately, a disconnect between the designer’s vision and the developer’s execution.
a16z promotes Jennifer Li to help lead the new $1.25B Infrastructure fund

Apr 19, 2024 | topnews.media | Jennifer Li |Martin Casado

Powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is promoting Jennifer Li to general partner after six years at the firm. She’s being tapped to help invest the new $1.25 billion Infrastructure fund managed by longtime a16z general partner Martin Casado. The Infrastructure fund is part of the fresh $7.2 billion that the Silicon Valley VC giant just raised. Li has been an investing partner on the Infrastructure team for a while, which means she was already writing checks and taking board seats.
Jennifer Li | Andreessen Horowitz

Apr 19, 2024 | a16z.com | Martin Casado |Matt Bornstein |Jennifer Li |Rajko Radovanovic

Jennifer Li is being promoted to GP where she will continue to invest broadly within the enterprise space, focusing on infrastructure and horizontal SaaS. Jennifer joined us 6 years ago as an investment partner, transitioning from a long-time operating role running product teams, and building developer tools, and ML applications. In that time she has gone from just learning about venture, to being one of the most impactful investors in the firm.
The Future of AI Is Amazing

Mar 5, 2024 | a16z.com | Martin Casado |Katherine Boyle |Jennifer Li |Matt Bornstein

In this presentation from the American Dynamism Summit, a16z General Partner Martin Casado lays out the case for AI as a driving force behind incredible advancements in technology, creativity, and the human experience — not to mention efficiency improvements on par with, if not greater than, those delivered by the internet and the microchip. Here is a transcript of his presentation:I’m going to be covering this AI stuff everybody is talking about.
Investing in Ideogram

Feb 28, 2024 | a16z.com | Martin Casado |Jennifer Li |Yoko Li |Matt Bornstein

There is no culture, country, nor period of human history where creative expression hasn’t been central. It’s an intrinsic “something” that has long defined humans as humans, and (rightly or wrongly …) somehow different from all other forms of life. And yet, despite its foundational nature inside all of us, being a “creative” is often also reduced to describing someone with innate skill or studied mastery in creative disciplines such as music, painting, or sculpting.
Why, at 95, Magdalena Suarez-Frimkess Matters for a New Generation of Women Ceramicists

Feb 15, 2024 | frieze.com | Jennifer Li

Southern California’s history of ceramic art has long been associated with the boys: the legendary, rule-breaking ceramicist Peter Voulkos; Ron Nagle and Ken Price, with their unusual use of synthetics; and Tony Marsh, artist and influential professor at California State University, to name but a few.
Investing in Upstash

Feb 14, 2024 | a16z.com | Jennifer Li |Yoko Li |Justine Moore |Bryan Kim

The serverless platform shift is unfolding at a rapid pace. By that, we mean services that scale to zero, are globally distributed, and scale up based on demand. Having spent the last few years studying this market, we observed two key drivers behind the adoption of this platform shift — one architectural, and the other organizational. First, application logic is becoming event-driven for new apps, necessitated by high volume and low-latency communication between third-party APIs and microservices.
Artist Chidy Wayne on How Doubt and Uncertainty Guide His Hand

Feb 13, 2024 | sightunseen.com | Jennifer Li

02.13.24 Q+A by Jennifer S. Li Barcelona-based artist Chidy Wayne boasts an assured hand, honed from years of sketching as a former fashion designer and from working for over a decade as an illustrator commissioned by big brands like Nike and Kinfolk.