new startup idea from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's a16z¹: a tool to let you control thousands of #socialmedia accounts that look "as human as possible"

¹ Owners of large stakes in #Substack, The Privatized Public Square (AKA “X” AKA “The Everything App”), and (soon) #TikTok

#DoubleSpeed #AI #grok #psyop #a16z #MarcAndreessen #SlugsOfA16z #uspol #disinformation #BenHorowitz #nerdreich #broligarchy #broligarchs #X #NetworkState

An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the #crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists #MarcAndreessen & #BenHorowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each.

#OndoFinance, which has a partnership with the #Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to #MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.

#law #corruption #bribery #DarkMoney #plutocracy #oligarchy

The #money raised by #MAGA Inc. during the first 6 months of the year is almost 2X the amount collected by the #RNC, which is subject to contribution limits. #JeffreyYass donated $16 million to the super #PAC & #BenHorowitz & #MarcAndreessen combined to donate an additional $11 million. His group also collected several seven-figure contributions from #crypto companies, an industry that #Trump has embraced, & $5 million from a crypto entity co-founded by the #OpenAI chief #SamAltman.

#Trump’s super #PAC is sitting on about $200 million that it can spend against his rivals, giving a term-limited president a never-before-seen amount of #power in his party’s finances and future.

In the first half of 2025, Trump’s group, #MAGA Inc., collected about $177 million from the likes of #ElonMusk, Trump’s erstwhile ally, the #TikTok investor #JeffreyYass & the #SiliconValley execs #BenHorowitz & #MarcAndreessen, according to a filing on Thursday with the #FEC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/maga-inc-trump-fundraising.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Trump, Term-Limited, Amasses $200 Million War Chest for Political Ambitions

The money is meant to beat Democrats, but some Republicans worry it could be used to beat Republicans, too.

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Optimism is good. Delusion isn't.
In public procurement, hiding problems helps no one.
As Ben Horowitz said: “A brain can’t solve a problem it doesn’t know about.”
Lead with transparency.
#Leadership #PublicProcurement #StrategicSourcing #BenHorowitz #GovTech https://bigthink.com/business/ceo-masterclass-3-ways-to-burst-the-positivity-delusion/
CEO masterclass: 3 ways to burst the “positivity delusion”

Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Ben Horowitz thought that “blowing sunshine” was a smart answer to pressure. He corrected his mistake.

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El Salvador's Nayib Bukele shown here with Nerd Reich broligarchs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz from crypto focused venture capital firm #a16z.

More on Bukele's connections to crypto: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114207719623689935

#ElSalvador #uspol #broligarchy #nerdreich #MarcAndreessen #BenHorowitz #KilmarAbregoGarcia #AbregoGarcia #VentureCapital #NetworkState

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Attached: 1 image Ω🪬Ω #TheCryptocalypseChronicles: El Salvador's Gulag Cryptopelago (new, spicier title) #ElSalvador's in the news a lot right now because the Trump administration shipped a few hundred people off to that country's incredibly dangerous new mega prison, #CECOT. What seems to have gone unnoticed in all the reporting, however, is Salvadoran dictator #NayibBukele's outsized role in the world of cryptocurrency and through that his direct connections to the Trump administration via Commerce Secretary #HowardLutnick and #Tether. Retoots appreciated. https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-el-salvador #uspol #ICE #deportation #bitfinex #Bukele #Trump #DHS #StephenMiller #DonaldTrump #Tether #stablecoins #USDT

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another day, another AI scam backed by #MarcAndreessen's #a16z.

> "TechCrunch learned that multiple companies with logos on #11x's website were not actual customers and that at least one is threatening legal action over it.”

When a company lies about something so public and so easily verifiable it begs the question: what else are they lying about?

Andreessen is running #DOGE with #ElonMusk. These are the kind of people who run the US government now.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/a16z-and-benchmark-backed-11x-has-been-claiming-customers-it-doesnt-have/

#corruption #uspol #elevenX #BenHorowitz #AndreessenHorowitz #AI

a16z- and Benchmark-backed 11x has been claiming customers it doesn’t have | TechCrunch

Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory. However, nearly two dozen sources — including

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Former chair of the US House Financial Services Committee #PatrickMcHenry just got hired by #MarcAndreessen’s #a16z.

#Broligarchy revolving door so bright you gotta wear shades.

#crypto #broligarchs #nerdReich #BenHorowitz #uspol #uspolitics #corruption #finreg

now that the $1.4 billion worth of crypto stolen from #Bybit is being laundered through #MarcAndreessen / #a16z’s Uniswap (so North Korea can continue to fund its nuclear weapons program), I figured it would be a good time to repost this explanation of how the last massive pile of stolen crypto was also laundered through Marc Andreessen’s Uniswap.

tl;dr there are no incentives in a16z's business model to dissuade north korea (or whoever) from laundering stolen crypto. in fact quite the opposite - a16z and Marc Andreessen massively profits from the popularity of its money laundering service.

"investing" in crypto is literally investing in crime.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers

#uspol #nerdreich #uspolitics #broligarchy #Trump #BenHorowitz

Of Tech Bros And Trumpers

The reason Silicon Valley billionaires at firms like a16z and Sequoia Capital suddenly decided to back Donald Trump is not a mystery.

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