Aaron Lu

Today we're stoked to announce the inaugural class of @a16z Growth Engineer fellows! 🎉 65 growth leaders selected out of thousands of apps from talented people around the world. Many fellows are household names in the growth × AI space who helped to write the original growth playbooks - like @lukeharries from ElevenLabs, @ramanrmalik from Perplexity, @BenShanken from Coinbase, and @DBredvick from Vercel. Some are AI-native engineers now building massive growth engines at scale - like Aaron Lu at Notion, Ramya Durvasula at Partiful, and @vaibhav_2991 at OpenAI. Others are product leaders turned growth engineers, designing powerful new growth systems - like @alkarim at Google, @ravishagrwal at Gamma, @egavrilenko11 at Cursor, and Ajay Prakash at Superpower. You might recognize @yash_tek from his educational Clay content, or Jordan Crawford from his thoughtful write-ups on growth engineering via Claude Code. But we’ve also got young hustlers like Diana Lim who are fresh out of college with CS degrees and already tastefully automating everything in sight at early-stage startups. Pumped about this group - and to do more fellowships & cohorts in the future! Sharing links below for more details - plus a sign-up form to stay in touch on the next fellowship. 🙌