Ted Ullyot

Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Ted Ullyot is a partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, where he heads up the firm’s Policy & Regulatory Affairs group. Ted’s professional background is a mix of Silicon Valley and Washington DC. He was General Counsel of Facebook from 2008 to 2013, a tenure that included the Winklevoss litigation, taking the company public, and the Snowden controversy, among other high-profile matters. Ted spent most of his pre-Facebook career as a Washington DC lawyer, including as a law clerk for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; as a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP; and in the administration of President George W. Bush (as a deputy assistant in the White House, and later as chief of staff at the Justice Department under Attorney General Gonzales). At other points in his career, Ted served as General Counsel of ESL Investments, Inc., as General Counsel of AOL Time Warner Europe, and as a member of the board of AutoZone, Inc. Ted graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, after doing his undergraduate work at Harvard.