Ali Yahya

Ali Yahya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he invests across the crypto landscape for a16z crypto. Born and raised in Mexico City and trained in computer science at Stanford, he first read the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2010 while doing research in Stanford's Computer Security Lab, then spent years as a software engineer and researcher at Google X, on the Everyday Robot project, and at Google Brain, where he was a core developer on TensorFlow. He joined a16z in 2017 as the first full-time member of its crypto team, was promoted to General Partner in 2021, and has worked with portfolio companies including Solana, EigenLayer, LayerZero, zkSync, Aztec, and Alchemy. Lately he has become one of the firm's leading voices on why privacy will be crypto's most durable moat.

15 talks by Ali Yahya

• Why Ali Yahya Believes That the Chain That Protects Private State Will Win
• A16z Crypto Raised $2.2 Billion for Fund 5. Here's How They Plan to Deploy It
• The privacy chain thesis, with a16z's Ali Yahya
• We Raised $2.2B. Here’s Why.
• Why Privacy Will Be the Biggest Moat in Crypto
• Inside Solana: Near-Death Brushes and a Need for Speed (with Solana)
• Building EigenLayer with Sreeram Kannan
• ep 12 – Ethereum, Merge and Beyond
• ep 2 – Blockchains / Crypto / web3
• ep 29 - Debating Blockchain Architectures (with Solana)
• 3 mental models for crypto infrastructure | Ali Yahya
• Ali Yahya: Andreessen Horowitz – A16z Crypto Investment Thesis #494
• Why Zero-Knowledge Proofs Are Critical to Ethereum’s Future - Ep. 473
• Ali Yahya: Crypto Business Models
• a16z's Crypto Thesis | Arianna Simpson, Ali Yahya