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Chris Lyons

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $40,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $20,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Member Board of Trustees

    2023

2022

  • Board Member

    2022

  • General Partner

    2021

  • Cultural Leadership Fund

    2018

  • Chief of Staff

    2013 - 2018

    Software is eating the world.

  • Advisor

    2017

  • Kauffman Fellow, Class 19

    2014

2020 - 2022

  • Global Advisory Board

    2020 - 2022

2010 - 2013

  • Founder & CEO

    2010 - 2013

    PictureMenu helps restaurants easily create 21st century marketing tools. The speed, ease, and convenience of PictureMenu bridges restaurants with their favorite guests. We understand that the heart of every restaurant is within their menu, so we have elegantly designed a service to allow any restaurant the opportunity to create and manage their own mobile menu.

  • Music Industry Consultant, Certified Mixing & Mastering Engineer, Music Producer

    2010 - 2013

    Required to transform any artist's creative vision into a respectable audio/visual product. · Professionally mixed and mastered artists music for commercially distribution and national syndication on major radio stations Provided paid services including: Social Media Branding, Industry Consultation, Artist Management, Showcase Bookings, Video Shoots, Website Designs, and album cover artwork Clientele includes 2 Chainz (Good Music) Gucci Mane (Warner Brother Records), Travis Porter (Jive Records), Yo Gotti (J Record), MrLyons (LKE), LA The Boomman (MMI Records), Clay James (1440), DNA, etc.

  • Chief Technical Officer

    2010 - 2012

    Managed over $25,000 worth of milestones delivered on time and above company's satisfaction. Practical experience designing websites integrated with mobile apps for iPad, iPhone, Android, and Blackberry markets. Interviewed over 15 software development companies and hired the perfect team for A&D's mobile application project. Constructed entire User Requirements document to increase software development productivity Conceptualized distinct branding strategies for each of A&D's website/mobile applications companies Oversaw all legal decisions including the incorporation of company's first mobile application · Personally envisioned, then designed company's unique daily deals platform · Responsible for developing a profitable revenue model for each of A&D's mobile applications · Drafted Three detailed business plans that outlined marketing, financial projects, and product summaries.