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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award 2012 (shared with Dina Katabi) for creating Software-Defined Networking
★NEC C&C Award for networking innovations
★Inductee of Lawrence Livermore Lab's Entrepreneur's Hall of Fame
Notable Facts
→General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz leading $1.25B infrastructure practice since 2016
→Co-founder and CTO of Nicira, sold to VMware for $1.26B in 2012
→Pioneer of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow protocol at Stanford
→PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University
→80.2K Twitter followers, active thought leader on AI policy and infrastructure
→Board member of 15+ major tech companies including World Labs, Cursor, Fivetran
→Regular media contributor on AI regulation, arguing against premature restrictions
→Scaled VMware's networking unit to $600M run-rate before joining a16z
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