The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

a good dissection of the many conflicting statements and beliefs behind the political shifts of many VCs in 2024.

not surprising in the least, just a mess due to the lack of honesty and frankness about what really matters and what they are willing to forgo.

and as we look back knowing how much of this has unfolded, it certainly feels like while their pocketbooks have benefitted, it has cost their industry, their employers, and their customers greatly. maybe too much.

Last week, the founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz declared their allegiance to Donald Trump in their customary fashion: talking about money on a podcast. Marc Andreessen and Horowitz insist they voted for Democrats until now. They are friends with liberals. They claim to be nervous about the social blowback they will receive for this, especially because of the historically progressive nature of the tech industry and the Bay Area. But given the general movement among their class toward Trump, I think those claims about being nervous are overblown, if not performative. In venture capital, you are what you fund. Andreessen and Horowitz understand this, even embody it. But they aren't just funding the issues they discuss on their podcast; they are funding Trump and Vance. That means those donations are anti-abortion, anti-immigration, and possibly even anti-democracy because that is what the Trump / Vance ticket stands for. These are not subsidiary issues: these are now what two of Silicon Valley's most prominent figures now stand for, too. Is that a good investment?