About
Bio and contact info
Shoot me an email anytime. On Twitter I’m @andrewchen, which I use more often than I blog!
Below is a bio that I typed up for a conference in 3rd person 
Andrew Chen is a blogger and entrepreneur focused on consumer internet, metrics and user acquisition. He is an advisor/angel for early-stage startups including AppSumo, Cardpool (acquired by Safeway), Catchfree, Gravity, Mocospace, Launchbit, Qik (acquired by Skype), Wanelo, WeeWorld, Votizen, and is also a 500 Startups mentor. Previously, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV), a Silicon Valley-based firm with $2B under management. At MDV, Andrew pursued initiatives in digital media and advertising and helped source internet investments for the firm.
Prior to MDV, Andrew was director of product marketing at Audience Science, where he started up the ad network business that today reaches over 380 million uniques. He led the product team to grow the network to thousands of publishers with over 5 billion ads served per month and led the company’s relationships with MySpace and Yahoo, two of Audience Science’s most strategic partners. In addition, Andrew played key roles in winning the company’s initial brand advertising clients, which today include dozens of top-tier publishers including AOL, IAC, ESPN, Washington Post, among others. He also co-authored a patent on personalized advertising, USPTO #7,882,175.
Andrew has been quoted in publications such as the New York Times, Fortune, Wired, and others.
He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington.
11 years old, just caught a fish!
Why enterpreneurs and marketers read this blog
The sad truth about blogging is that 99% of blogs are not worth reading. Andrew Chen’s blog on online marketing is one of the few exceptions to this rule. I often find myself referring people to posts from Andrew’s blog because it actually contains useful research and insight, instead of the usual noise.
– Jonathan Abrams, founder of Friendster
Marc read Andrew
good blog
– a half haiku by Marc Andreessen
Andrew’s incredibly analytical mind, understanding of web development, and expansive network of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and veterans, affords him the unique opportunity to jump into the trenches on case studies for an intimate micro-level understanding and to learn from experts a wealth of research and wisdom of the macro forces at play.
– Jason Feffer, ceo of Sodahead and previously vp operations at MySpace
I go to Andrew to learn more about the latest methods for building and retaining web audiences. There’s no one who knows more about it.
– Mitchell Kapor, founder, Lotus and founding Chair, Mozilla Foundation
Andrew’s blog is an inexhaustible source of numbers and ideas on concepts that matter.
– Max Levchin, founder of Slide and cto/co-founder of PayPal
Andrew is one of the smartest geeks in Silicon Valley, and a brilliant and comprehensive virtuoso on a broad array of tech and non-tech topics including internet advertising, viral marketing, web analytics, social networks, online games, and all kinds of web glitter. He is a veritable Glenn Gould of startup blogging, and every chance i get i rip off his ideas and try to pass them off as my own. Respect.
– Dave McClure, 500 startups and Paypal alum
Andrew is writing the textbook on web marketing.
– Jim Young, i/o ventures and cto/co-founder of HotOrNot
