Scott Weiss

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.

Early career Weiss was an associate at McKinsey & Company and spent his first five years out of college at Electronic Data Systems. 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.

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

Weiss was previously on the Board of Directors of Skout, the social mobile company that was sold in 2016 to The Meet Group.