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a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything

Martin Casado, Sonal, Michael

Martin Casado joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner to leverage his pioneering work in Software-Defined Networking and his experience founding Nicira, which was acquired by VMware in 2012. Drawing on his evolution from modeling nuclear weapons to establishing micro-segmentation security principles, Casado is leading a16z's infrastructure strategy by capitalizing on the industry's shift toward open-source models and developer-centric "as-a-Service" offerings. His return to venture capital is motivated by a desire to fund the next phase of this transformation as the sector moves from selling to IT operations to directly serving distributed application needs.