👋, I'm Andrew!

I'm an unabashed tech geek living in Hawaii 🌺🏄🤙.

Email: andrew.parker@gmail.com
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📯: I’m currently a General Partner at Spero Ventures. I started my career in product design and then did VC for 16 years at Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. I am an alpha-geek always seeking the next new product dopamine hit.

📝: I have been writing on the internet semi-regularly for a decade+. Here’s some of my greatest hits:

• The Spawn of Craigslist (and follow-up Challenge in VC 4 years later)
• Indirect Value Capture
• API-First: LEGOS for Business
• Deterministic Post Money Options Pool Calculations
• The Darwinism of Encryption
• Sequoia’s RIP Good Times Retrospective
• Monte Carlo Simulations of a Sales Pipeline
• Post-Termination Options Exercise Solutions
• How Wrong I Was About Mobile Browsers
• Series A Investment Pacing Across Top Tier Firms
• Secret Knowledge

💰: As an investor I've led or sourced dozens of startup investments, and I keep a public log of my investment thesis at the start of many of them. It’s fun to review these old scratchings and see how different things turn out compared to original intentions.

• Carta
• Nylas
• Particle
• Panorama Education
• Guide
• AllHere
• Quantopian
• Socratic
• Timehop
• BloomNation
• Panjo
• Upworthy
• Priceonomics
• Tumblr
• StackExchange

🏃‍♂️: I’m an avid marathon runner and surfer (current PR: 3:08:25 at Eugene). You can follow my progress on Strava.

📚: I'm a bookworm and maintain a list of all the books I’ve read (along with a 5-star rating). If we are meeting soon, talking about your favorite books you've read recently is a great icebreaker with me.

🔉: I’ve been a guest on a couple podcasts. There should be a long German word for the feeling of deep discomfort of hearing your own voice played back to you.

• Nick Moran’s The Full Ratchet (Part I and Part II)
• 20-Minute VC

Written in HTML by hand, no framework, because I <3 nostalgia. Photo credit: Nabeel Hyatt.