Scott Weiss

Scott Weiss
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Florida (B.A.) Harvard Business School (M.B.A.)
Occupation	Venture capitalist
Known for	General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Scott Weiss is an American venture capitalist at the Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, joining in April 2011 as the firm’s fourth general partner. A native of Sarasota, Florida, he founded and was CEO of IronPort Systems, which Cisco acquired in 2007 for $830 million. Weiss has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

While at Andreessen Horowitz, Weiss has blogged on such topics as corporate transparency for All Things D and enterprise startup best practices for GigaOM. He serves on the boards of Distelli, Platfora, Silver Tail Systems, Bluebox, and Jumio as well as Skout, App.Net, and Return Path.

Weiss is credited with bringing to the firm 360-degree feedback performance reviews of partners by other partners, venture firms and entrepreneurs of the companies in Andreessen Horowitz’s portfolio. This type of performance review is an unusual practice for venture capital firms.

In April, Scott Weiss joined the Board of Directors of Optimizely as part of Andreesen Horowitz's Series B round in the company.

Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Weiss was vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, a position he assumed following Cisco’s acquisition of email appliance provider IronPort Systems. Weiss co-founded IronPort Systems in 2001 with Scott Banister, with whom he had worked at Idealab. Over the next six years, IronPort Systems grew from two people into a company with 450 employees and a $200 million run rate.

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