Robert
Hackett
Editorial
Robert Hackett is Features Editor and Head of Special Projects for a16z crypto. He is also a cohost of the web3 with a16z podcast, part of the Andreessen Horowitz podcast network. In addition to producing regular content for the website and newsletter, Robert coproduces the annual State of Crypto Report. He also edited Chris Dixon’s Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (Random House, January 2024), which made The New York Times Best Sellers list, USA Today’s Best-selling Booklist, and received other accolades.
Before joining a16z in November 2021, Robert was a senior writer and editor at Fortune where he cofounded the first mainstream media franchise dedicated to crypto (Fortune Crypto, née The Ledger) and where he also wrote one of the earliest magazine profiles of Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum, in 2016. Robert spearheaded the fall 2021 issue of Fortune, which received “best innovation project” at the 2021 EPPY Awards — for an NFT auction game that raised over $1 million, including more than $600,000 for non-profit organizations — and which was runner-up for “best business reporting.” Robert was also a finalist for the 2018 Larry Birger Young Business Journalist Award, and he was an honoree at the 2017 SABEW Best in Business Awards for his Fortune cover story “Blockchain Mania!”
Prior to Fortune, Robert worked at Nautilus Magazine, TED Conferences, and Johnson & Johnson. He did his master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University and double majored in chemistry + chemical biology and English at Cornell University, with minors in history and science + technology studies.