More About Yoko
Yoko is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she focuses on developer tools, infrastructure, and AI. Yoko is an engineer by trade: before joining a16z, she was an engineer at AppDynamics, founding engineer/PM at Transposit, and led product at Hashicorp (Terraform Cloud). She remains an active open source developer, maintainer and contributor, and built projects like AI-town (https://github.com/a16z-infra/AI-town), AI-tamago(https://github.com/ykhli/AI-tamago), companion app (https://github.com/a16z-infra/companion-app) and local-ai-stack (https://github.com/ykhli/local-ai-stack/).
Aside from venture and app building, Yoko is an active cartoonist and has a passion for explaining technical concepts (as well as making fun of them) in her cartoons. You can find her cartoons here: https://twitter.com/stuffyokodraws
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