Ramu Arunachalam's path is unusually technical for a venture investor, having worked as an engineer on VMware's ESX virtual switch team with patents tied to TCP/IP offloading, then moving through Inktomi, JPMorgan's tech banking group, and product leadership at Aster Data (later acquired by Teradata) before joining Andreessen Horowitz and A.Capital. That hands-on engineering and product background shows up in his current role, where he co-authored A.Capital's piece on AGI with Ronny Conway and was personally named by Notion's Ivan Zhao as someone founders can trust.