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I’ve spent my career in global sales, client development, and talent solutions—helping companies scale by building the right teams.

Today, I run Handoff, where we connect U.S. startups and growing businesses with top offshore talent. From executive assistants and marketers to operations, finance, and relocation specialists, we make it simple to hire incredible people at a fraction of the local cost.

Our mission is to let founders and leaders focus on what they do best—and handoff the rest.

Anthony Gonzalez

Based in Silicon Valley since the dot-com era, I’m a venture capitalist with a background as a founder, industry analyst, angel investor, startup advisor, and global keynote speaker.

-As a General Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures, I'm investing in early-stage AI startups that have the potential to quickly scale with viral effects and network effects. 

-I host Llama Lounge, an AI startup event that draws hundreds of technology founders, investors, and corporate leaders. I also regularly speak at technology conferences worldwide.

-Speaker at TED AI, Web Summit, Step Conference, Techcrunch Disrupt, Swiss Economic Forum, LeWeb, Frankfurt Auto Show. A professional speaker at corporate events including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Coca-Cola, Visa, Nvidia, Disney, Toyota, BMW, and LinkedIn.

-Quoted in: Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Reuters, The Information, USA Today, Adweek, Harvard Business Review, and Wired.

Jeremiah Owyang

Bad new and Good news about Llama Lounge: 

BAD NEWS: 
Llama Lounge 22 at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is waitlist-only. We're totally sold out. 

GOOD NEWS:
Our Spring 2026 host lineup is a premium set of tech companies and organizations, there's more chances to attend: 

Jan: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Feb: Snowflake
Mar:  Google DeepMind
Apr:  Stanford University
May: Microsoft

Fall host lineup TBA

VC Investor at Blitzscaling Ventures | Founder, Llama Lounge AI Events | Speaker | Works in an Airstream | CrossFit

We at Blitzscaling Ventures are proud to invest in Atrios, an a16z portfolio company where we saw CEO Taylor Offer demo the product at the a16z Speedrun Demo Day.

Atrios is an AI-powered network intelligence platform that maps who knows who and makes those relationships actionable for go-to-market teams.

How it works:

-Tech vendors can post offers and specify the types of roles they want to connect with.
-Connectors (often founders, VCs, business development professionals between roles, or highly connected individuals) can peruse the offerings and choose the best fits.
-The connectors reach out to their prospects for a mutually agreed-upon introduction.
-The tech vendor gets a qualified, warm intro to a lead. The connector gets compensated. The business decision-maker accelerates their decision-making process.
-All three parties benefit: the vendor, the connector, and the business decision-maker, which is why the company is cleverly called “A-Trios,” Atrios.

And yes, Taylor Offer that's his actual given name, perfect for using AI for modern business development. 

Link to our post in comments

Why is SF the Epicenter of AI?

There’s no other region that comes even close to the AI community in the SF Bay Area.
-In some months, there are 300 in-person AI events.
-That could be 10+ events per day.
-The pace is picking up, an acceleration.
-Builders want to be together to exchange resources, ideas, deals, and get funded.
-Each month, on average, there are about 8 hackathons (each with 150+ developers), the small articulation at top of the bar charts is the hackathons

The SF Bay Area hosts more in-person events than most continents do, collaboration is built into our culture.

Data from Cerebral Valley, this was a key slide from my TED AI speech.

I review a lot of startup pitches and websites as a VC and the host of Llama Lounge. Today's advice for founders is to ensure you're choosing a large enough problem to tackle, in a large enough market, but at the same time, find a market that's not already overcrowded with AI startups. It's a delicate balancing act in choosing your attack vector.  

BTW: Llama Lounge is next week, and will be hosted at AWS, we are about to close the registration list. Link in comments

We, at Blitzscaling Ventures have invested in Ambiguous: AI agent teammates for business. 

Are they 1) AI agents helping my business, or 2) are they remote humans? We can't tell, it's Ambiguous! 

Today’s work tools assume either humans do the work, or AI replaces it. Ambiguous takes a different approach: AI coworkers that operate alongside humans in the same workspace, with real identities (each with Google accounts), shared context, and a full audit trail. Humans and AI collaborate on the same threads across Google Workspace, Slack, and more, making work feel less like automation and more like teamwork.

The product is designed around product-led growth and virality (key to our investment thesis): AI coworkers naturally interact with other humans, spreading through shared threads, emails, and workflows. As teams add more coworkers and expand use cases, the platform compounds in value, moving from individual productivity to team operations and eventually enterprise-wide adoption.

The founding team Ryan Waliany, Philip Lee, Dan Hsiao all worked together at a prior company Doorstead, brings a rare combination of deep technical skill and operating experience. 

We met the Ambiguous team through the a16z speedrun and were immediately impressed by their clarity of thought and ambition. We believe Ambiguous is defining a new category: not just AI assistants, but true AI coworkers that work like real teammates. We’re excited to partner with the team as they build the operating system for agentic work.

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