Meet the a16z Growth Engineer Fellows

The 65 fellows we’ve selected to join the inaugural cohort

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A few weeks ago, we announced the a16z Growth Engineer Fellowship—an 8-week cohort of growth engineers, AI-native GTM leaders, and tech-savvy agent builders shaping the future of company growth.

We received thousands of applications from talented people around the world. Today, we’re excited to share more about the 65 fellows we’ve selected to join the inaugural cohort who are leading growth at companies like OpenAI, Replit, Notion, Coinbase, ElevenLabs, Perplexity, and Clay.

Many of these fellows are household names in the growth × AI space who have helped to write the original growth playbooks—like Luke Harries from ElevenLabs, Raman Malik from Perplexity, Ben Shanken from Coinbase, and Drew Bredvick from Vercel.

Some are AI-native engineers now harnessing their technical acumen to build massive growth engines at scale—like Aaron Lu at Notion, Ramya Durvasula at Partiful, and Vaibhav Aggarwal at OpenAI.

Others are translating a depth in product strategy to design powerful new growth systems—like Alkarim Nasser at Google, Ravish Agrawal at Gamma, Emily Gavrilenko at Cursor, and Ajay Prakash at Superpower.

You might recognize Yash Tekriwal from his educational Clay content—or Jordan Crawford from his thoughtful write-ups on growth engineering via Claude Code.

But we’ve also got young hustlers like Diana Lim who are fresh out of college, trained in computer science, and already tastefully automating everything in sight at early-stage startups.

Across the board, these fellows are architecting growth engines behind iconic tech products, engineering custom loops most people wouldn’t believe are possible, and operating at the bleeding edge of what growth can be.

We hope that you’ll join us in celebrating everything this group has already done, and everything they’re about to do next.

Congratulations and welcome, a16z Growth Engineer Fellows!

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