Lisha Li is an investment partner on Andreessen Horowitz’s infrastructure team and founder and board member of Rosebud AI. Her work connects a statistics research background with generative tools for creative applications and AI investing.[1]
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Education
Links
Lisha Li: Andreessen Horowitz LinkedIn
X · lishali88 Investment Partner, Infrastructure · Andreessen Horowitz
Founder and Board Member · Rosebud AI
Career
Li joined a16z after building Rosebud AI. The firm says she focuses on frontier models and supporting infrastructure, with interests in science and creative applications. Rosebud’s current leadership page lists Vladimir Glazachev as CEO since April 2026 and Li as founder and board member. Earlier founder biographies describing her as CEO belong to that earlier period. Her Berkeley statistics department record lists the PhD program from 2013 to graduation in 2017, with David Aldous as dissertation adviser.[1][2][3]
Contributions
Rosebud AI lets users describe an idea, build a browser game and share it. Its mission frames creation as part of play, reducing the programming experience needed to try characters, worlds and rules. Li’s contribution is founding the company and helping establish its direction. The company page does not attribute every generated game or software feature to her personally.[2]
Ideas
In her conversation with mathematician Daniel Litt, Li examines what AI systems can and cannot yet contribute to mathematics. The discussion distinguishes producing a correct calculation or proof from developing a useful theory or choosing an important problem. That distinction gives a more specific way to evaluate reasoning progress than treating every solved problem as the same kind of advance.[4]
Tools, writing & talks
Writing, research & talks
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A conversation about mathematical reasoning, useful proofs and the gap between solving a task and developing theory.
Start with the Daniel Litt conversation. It requires no research background and offers practical distinctions between a model completing a mathematical task and contributing understanding that a mathematician can build on.
Interviewer and co-host[4]a16z's Lisha Li and Nathan Lambert debate how durable the lead of frontier labs over open models is, covering distillation, compute limits, RL environments, post-training data, and Lambert's new nonprofit lab Trillium.
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Apps
- Rosebud AIrosebud.ai
A game-creation platform that turns descriptions into browser-playable games.
Founder and board member; company work[2]