Eddy Lazzarin
Eddy Lazzarin is a general partner at a16z crypto, the crypto arm of Andreessen Horowitz. He joined the firm in 2019 as a data scientist and investing partner, became head of engineering, then CTO in 2023, leading the engineering, research, data science, and security teams he helped build, including the group behind Jolt, an open source zkVM. In 2026 he was promoted to general partner alongside the announcement of the firm's $2.2 billion Fund 5, where he focuses on portfolio and token strategy; his writing on token design and classification has become a reference framework for founders and policymakers. Before crypto, he was a software engineer at Netflix and a data engineer at Facebook, and he holds a B.A. in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.