A16z acqui-hires VC tech podcaster Erik Torenberg, who joins as new partner

The spree of the appointment of Andresen Harovits continues. Monday, Eric Torenberg Declaration The giant VC firm joined his turpentine podcast as a general partner.

Podcast in Tornberg focuses on VCS interviews from various agencies on their methods about most investment. Recent guests include Axel Andrew Bracia, Alexis Ohanian of Seven Seven Six and Sara Tavel and Eric Biswas of Benchmark.

Tornberg said he was planning to continue his podcast, but we would see if it changed the direction. A. 16 Z creates a lot of corporate content with its own podcast. However, the focus is on the founders rather than other VCS.

Although the rental for the A16z of Tornberg is as understandable. Beyond the pod, he was an elementary employee of the Product Hunt and was a successful angel investor and Pro VC in the years. Very recently, he worked For seven years at the Farm Village GlobalThe While there, he helped launch a deck, a program that trained the founders of the Wanab. He says that his investments include scale AI, nets, figs, confusion, transcripts, flaxports and others.

So he hired fairly classic A16z. The Venture Firm has recently appointed former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenory And, several months ago, Former Marine Daniel Penny