Andy Yang

Andy is the CEO of 500px, the premium photography community backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Visual China Group, Harrison Metal, and ffVC. Previously he was investor at Extreme Startups and a venture capitalist at Relay Ventures.

As a native Californian, Andy worked at two leading Silicon Valley companies, Netflix and Chegg in strategic planning and analysis roles. Prior to these experiences, Andy was an investment banker at Thomas Weisel Partners and Goldman Sachs in the TMT coverage groups. Andy started his career at Accenture, deployed to the financial services industry helping mortgage banks and insurance companies with IT strategy, design & implementation. He also spent six months in Calcutta on a secondment that established a microfinance training institution called Reach India.

Andy is passionate about early stage startups, technology, ecommerce, subscription business models, and working with tenacious entrepreneurs.