# Peter Levine

> Peter Levine is an advisor at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on enterprise investing with a track record of backing transformative developer tools and infrastructure companies. An engineer turned executive turned investor, he scaled Veritas Software to $1.5 billion in revenue as EVP, sold XenSource to Citrix for $500 million as CEO, and led a16z's investments in GitHub (acquired by Microsoft for $7.5B), Figma (IPO 2025), and DigitalOcean (IPO 2021). He brings an unusual combination of deep technical expertise and business acumen, teaching management at Stanford GSB while serving on the boards of Apollo GraphQL, PlanetScale, Shield AI, Mixpanel, and Udacity.

- **Role:** Advisor at Andreessen Horowitz
- **Organizations:** Andreessen Horowitz, Stanford Graduate School of Business, MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BS in Engineering, Boston University, Attended (MBA program), MIT Sloan School of Management
- **Known for:** Led a16z's investment in GitHub (acquired by Microsoft for $7.5B in 2018), Led a16z's investment in Figma (IPO 2025, previously attempted acquisition by Adobe for $20B), Led a16z's investment in DigitalOcean (IPO 2021)

## Career timeline

- **1983** — Graduated from Boston University with BS in Engineering
- **1983-1988** — Software engineer on Project Athena at MIT
- **1988-1989** — Attended MIT Sloan School of Management
- **1990-2001** — Early employee at Veritas Software, rose from software engineer to Executive Vice President; helped grow company to 5,000+ employees and $1.5B revenue
- **2002-2005** — General Partner at Mayfield Fund
- **2006-2007** — President and CEO of XenSource
- **2007** — XenSource acquired by Citrix for $500 million; became VP at Citrix
- **2007-2011** — Senior Vice President and General Manager of Data Center and Cloud Division at Citrix
- **2010-2011** — Taught marketing and sales at MIT Sloan School of Management
- **2011** — Joined Andreessen Horowitz as General Partner
- **2012-present** — Management Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **2026** — Transitioned to Advisor role at Andreessen Horowitz, continuing to focus on enterprise investing

## Achievements

- Led a16z's investment in GitHub (acquired by Microsoft for $7.5B in 2018)
- Led a16z's investment in Figma (IPO 2025, previously attempted acquisition by Adobe for $20B)
- Led a16z's investment in DigitalOcean (IPO 2021)
- Grew Veritas Software from early-stage to 5,000+ employees and $1.5B revenue as EVP
- Sold XenSource to Citrix for $500 million as CEO
- Serves on boards of 10+ leading enterprise software companies
- Created influential frameworks for commercializing open source projects
- Teaching management and entrepreneurship at Stanford GSB and MIT
- Built portfolio of successful developer tools and infrastructure companies including Mixpanel, Apollo GraphQL, PlanetScale, Shield AI, Labelbox, and Udacity

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Led Andreessen Horowitz's investment in GitButler with Matt Bornstein, focusing on AI's impact on software engineering and noting that 'a large, growing portion of all new code is now written by AI agents'
- **2026-01** — Participated in a Distinguished Lecture at Boston University with Chris Malachowsky, co-founder of NVIDIA, exploring breakthroughs in AI and computing driven by cross-disciplinary collaboration
- **2025** — Figma, one of his key portfolio companies, completed its IPO

## Links

- Website: https://a16z.com/author/peter-levine/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-levine-681386172/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/peterlevine

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