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You’ll invest $400M into a social platform but still only follow 643 people, Ben treats Twitter like a VC portfolio: make huge, decisive plays, then quietly curate who gets past the gate. Also, he leaks internal memos like a plot twist writer who refuses to write short chapters.

Co-founding and scaling Andreessen Horowitz into one of the most influential venture firms in tech, plus turning hands-on philanthropy (e.g., public safety tech in Las Vegas) into measurable results.

To build and fund technologies and teams that shape markets and public life, using capital, narrative, and operations to move industries (and sometimes policy) toward what he sees as a freer, safer, and more innovative future.

Believes in the power of entrepreneurship to solve large social problems, the primacy of freedom and pragmatic policy over ideological purity, and that bold action (and funding) accelerates progress. Values loyalty, directness, and measuring impact with data and results.

Massive network and capital, a track record of founding/scaling influential ventures (a16z), an ability to make complex bets and translate them into persuasive public narratives, and a willingness to put resources behind causes he cares about.

Can be polarizing when mixing politics with business; bluntness sometimes fuels headlines that distract from substantive work; high-profile moves invite intense scrutiny and can amplify misinterpretations or backlash.

To grow on X, lean into consistent, high-value threads: 1) regular 'deal postmortems' or 'how we think' threads that teach founders; 2) short video POVs (60, 90s) explaining big bets; 3) weekly Twitter Spaces AMAs with founders and portfolio CEOs; 4) pin a clear mission tweet and a newsletter sign-up; 5) use data-driven visuals in threads and invite community Q&A to increase retweets and replies; 6) balance policy stances with behind-the-scenes product stories to broaden appeal.

Fun fact: he publicly invested $400M into Elon Musk’s Twitter bid. He and his wife have donated multimillion-dollar tech packages to the Las Vegas Metro Police to boost safety (totaling multiple millions across equipment and services). Follower stats: ~689,693 followers, follows 643, and has tweeted ~2,523 times. One top tweet amusingly shows 0 views yet tens of thousands of likes, the internet remains mysterious.

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Rest in Peace to my father @horowitz39 . We love you Dad. David Joel Horowitz was born January 10, 1939 to Phil and Blanche Horowitz in Queens, New York. David was raised in Queens along with his sister Ruth. Phil and Blanche were high school teachers and members of the American Communist Party. Their lives included secret meetings, secret identities and a secret revolutionary plan. As such, they steeped David in Marxist philosophy and world affairs. We sometimes joked that he was the ā€œTiger Woods of Communismā€ as he was raised to be the Party’s next great player. He thought that was funny, because like Tiger he never had a choice in the matter. The impact of his upbringing was profound, but David's life would prove to be shaped by his own self-described irrational desire to ā€œsave the world.ā€ While this impulse began as a highly abstract concept, David would spend a lifetime refining it, sharpening it, completely revising it and ultimately making it his life’s mission. David attended Bryant High School in Queens, NY. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1959 majoring in English. He then earned a master's degree in English literature from University of California, Berkeley. In 1959, he instantly fell in love with and married Elissa Krauthamer. They would have four children: Jonathan Daniel, Sarah Rose, Benjamin Abraham, and Anne Deborah. In 1962, at 23 years old, David wrote and published his first book, Student, which detailed the political activities of students on the UC Berkeley campus. While at Berkeley, David became frustrated with his Shakespeare professor, so he wrote his own lecture series which he delivered and was widely attended by students all across the campus. He eventually published the series in his second book: Shakespeare: an Existential View. This superhuman confidence and ability to back it up would become thematic throughout David’s life. Later David and Elissa moved to London, England where David studied under Ralph Miliband and became close friends with Isaac Deutscher. Later David would write Deutscher’s biography. Also while in London, in 1965 David wrote The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War, which became the book that made him a force on the new left. In 1968, David and Elissa moved the family back to the United States and purchased a home in Berkeley, California where they would raise their four children. In his continued mission to save the world, in 1968 David became co-editor of the new left magazine Ramparts. While at Ramparts, David developed a close friendship with Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. As part of their work together, David helped raise money for, and assisted the Panthers with, the running of a school for poor children in Oakland. He later recommended that Newton hire his friend Betty Van Patter as bookkeeper; she was then working for Ramparts. In December 1974, Van Patter's body was found floating in San Francisco Harbor; she had been murdered by the Panthers for knowing too much. The murder forced David to confront a truth that he had long suspected. It made clear to him that the pursuit of a marxist utopia was a false and unachievable goal. Diabolically, the goal created a religion. The religion then cloaked the movement’s leaders with an invincible moral standing enabling them to commit atrocities with impunity for their own gain. He was horrified that he had been part of it and it caused him to rethink his entire life. The decision was not easy. His family, friends, and career were all deeply tied to ā€œthe movement.ā€ If he were to make this change, he would essentially need to start from scratch. So, he stayed away from politics for a while and changed to a neutral career. He became a biographer and journalist. It was a hugely risky move to change careers at 34 years old with a family of 6 in tow. In a testament to David’s supreme confidence, indomitable will and massive talent, he was an instant success. His first biography The Rockefeller’s An American Dynasty – written with his best friend and long time colleague Peter Collier – was a blockbuster bestseller. Their next biography The Kennedy’s An American Drama was an even bigger success becoming a number 1 New York Times bestseller. All the while, David kept an eye on and a hand in politics. While he needed a break to sort out his life, nothing in life would deter him from his mission. In 1981, San Francisco Chronicle writer Randy Schiltz tipped David and Peter to a potential epidemic known as AIDS, which was rapidly spreading through the bath houses in San Francisco. Schiltz was concerned that the leaders in the Gay Community were intimidating the medical establishment into covering up the way it was transmitted and therefore keeping the bath houses open, which would cause it to spread out of control . Randy was too terrified to write about it himself as he did not want to be attacked by the community. David, never one to fear anything, took on the story. In 1981, he and Peter published Whitewash: Gay Leaders in California Have Obscured Vital Information About How the AIDS Disease Spreads. The aggressive reaction to the story (references to the article still call David a ā€œhomophobeā€) reinforced David’s suspicions. If leaders on the left were willing to sacrifice millions of gay lives to preserve their power and orthodoxy, what wouldn’t they do? The article, the experience, and the ocean of death that followed were the final straw in David’s conversion from his Marxist roots to a leading thinker on the right. He formalized his position on March 17, 1985 when he and Peter published Lefties for Reagan in The Washington Post. David departed the left for good. The change would cost him nearly everything – all of his friends, coverage in the New York Times Book Review (essential for authors at the time), and countless lost earnings. He would have to start all over. But if the world needed saving from his former comrades on the left, that’s exactly what he would do. Later he would note that the right never excommunicated apostates the way he had been abandoned by the left. He often complained that he had ā€œthe rescue gene.ā€ For David, this meant nothing animated him more than someone in need of help. He would instantly leap into action, making every phone call, raising every dollar, and doing anything in his power to save that person. The realization that he had been party to the destructive force activated his rescue gene and infused him with an energy that would produce dozens of books, countless public appearances, and nearly nonstop work for the next 4 decades. In 1996, he captured this saga in his autobiography Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey where he retraced his life’s and political journey. 1998 proved to be a seminal year for David when he met his angel April Mullivain whom he would marry and who, along with her son John Jay, would watch over him until his passing. In 1998, he also founded The Horowitz Freedom Center, where he recruited an inspired group of new young intellectuals to join his cause. The name ā€œFreedom Centerā€ meant much more than most ever understood. While David became known for his change in views, in a sense he never changed at all. His personal style represented the place and community from which he came. Even when he wore a suit, he looked like a radical forced into it due to a court date or a wedding. More importantly, his mission to save the world centered around freedom. When David went to rescue people, it was always from oppression imposed by some person or group. Early on, he had been trained to think the rich capitalists were the oppressors. His political change came from the realization that his side was doing the oppressing. Protected by the guise of being ā€œfor the peopleā€, the Panthers took Betty’s life. The progressives left millions to die of AIDS, so they could preserve their leadership positions. His former friends on the left brutally excommunicated him from all their social relationships to reign power over him. It became clear that to fight for freedom, he had to be on the right and so the Freedom Center was born. From the Freedom Center, he published thousands of high impact articles and books. He understood the systematic implications of seemingly benign cultural changes and used that knowledge to predict much of the future. Notably, he precisely forecast the intense campus antisemitism of 2024 in his book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America published in 2006. In 2007, David was crushed by the passing of his beloved daughter Sarah Rose who, more than any of his other children, inherited his indomitable spirit and passion for politics. She had finally succumbed to long-time chronic degeneration from her genetic condition Turner’s Syndrome. He captured the experience in his most intimate and perhaps his best book A Cracking of the Heart in 2009. By the twenty teens, David had long been frustrated by what he referred to as the ā€œsoft, gentlemanlyā€ tactics of the Republican Party. He lamented that the Republicans were bringing a nerf gun to a nuclear war. He intimately knew the left’s tactics and desperately wanted his party to match them. His wish was granted when a new kind of candidate, Donald J. Trump, won the Republican nomination. David responded instantly with the best articulation of the Trump strategy in Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America. Later, in 2024, his son Benjamin would meet President Trump and mention David. President Trump’s face immediately lit up and he insisted that Benjamin get David on the phone immediately. Hospitalized and weak, David was still delighted to speak with the President and know that his message was heard and heeded. In 2024, David published America Betrayed: How a Christian Monk Created America & Why the Left Is Determined to Destroy Her. In it, he carefully explained how the Catholic Church – through the indulgences – had removed the freedom inherent in being accountable to God and replaced them with the oppression of being accountable to the church. He then explained how that same idea had come back into vogue in the U.S. Right up until the final moments, David fought for freedom. In the end, David helped countless people and expended every fiber of his being pushing society towards freedom. He may not have saved the world, but he most certainly made it a better place – especially for us. He was our super hero and we will love him forever.

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ā€œYou can hate me now, but I won’t stop now.ā€ - Nas It has come to my attention that Techcrunch is working on yet another piece on me. This time they seem to be curious about my donations to the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. To save everyone some time and from yet another unsubstantiated narrative, I thought I’d share how I’ve been helping the LVMPD become the most technologically advanced police department in the world. There were several reasons why I wanted to do this project and why I wanted to do it in Las Vegas: Public safety is incredibly important and impacts everyone. My wife Felicia grew up in a very high crime area and saw many of her friends murdered. These murders may sound like statistics to some, but they destroy families and lives. The key to making citizens, police, and suspects safer is better intelligence. If you do not have 1 on 1 confrontations between people with guns, that helps. If you don’t have high speed car chases, and you don’t have to chase people over fences and onto roofs, that makes everyone much safer. If people know that they are unlikely to get away with crimes, they are less likely to commit them. Our American Dynamism effort has been amazing in making the best technology available to the public sector, but the public sector often has trouble budgeting for strategic technology projects. By donating the technology, I am able to give LVMPD a running start. The LVMPD is perhaps the best in the country as exemplified by their incredibly high murder solve rate of 92%, which is the highest in the nation. I believed further enabling the incredible officers of the LVMPD would yield great results and it has. So what have we done so far that Techcrunch is investigating? We have been busy. There is much to investigate as there have been several areas of need. First, the LVMPD needed to solidify the basic technology of the department. Las Vegas added major events such as F1 and the Super Bowl, but didn’t correspondingly increase police funding. Specifically, they were short on computer terminals for officers, so Felicia and I donated $800,000 worth of new computer terminals. Next, Las Vegas was having difficulty retaining 911 operators. 911 is an incredibly stressful job and the attrition rate got so high that it was taking over 5 minutes to respond to emergency calls. In diagnosing the problem with Chief Mike Gennaro, we came up with a multifaceted solution. First, the LVMPD needed to fix the basic work environment. Felicia and I donated a new ice machine, a new cappuccino machine, and a new gymnasium to make a stressful job more pleasant. These new facilities were around $120,000. Next, we wanted to outfit them with the latest and greatest in emergency call technology, so we donated $400,000 to purchase technology from one of our portfolio companies, Prepared911. I am thrilled to report that attrition is way down and 911 calls are being answered in 30 seconds. Finally, the LVMPD wanted to radically improve its intelligence and situational awareness. To do this we donated approximately $6.3 million dollars towards the purchase of two state-of-the-art public safety technologies from Skydio and Flock Safety, also a16z portfolio companies. These technologies have been deployed with great success in cities like San Francisco as recently described by Mayor London Breed. The technologies put the LVMPD in a position of knowledge. For example, if someone steals a car with a baby in it, the Flock Safety system will locate and geotag the license plate, then a Skydio drone is automatically sent to monitor the situation. The camera feed from the drone will be sent to every police officer’s cell phone, so that they can approach the situation with the appropriate resources leading to a recovery of the child and a safe apprehension of the suspect. The early results of these efforts have been spectacular and will get much better as the LVMPDĀ  approaches full deployment. For the 911 emergency service, the YTD average through September 2024 for calls answered in less than 15 seconds is 95%, up from 66% for the same time period in 2023. The general year over year crime statistics improved as follows: Shootings Decrease of 21.40% Year 2023: 668 Year 2024: 525 Shooting Victims Decrease of 24.20% Year 2023: 302 Year 2024: 229 Homicides (current solve rate 94%) Decrease of 20.79% Year 2023: 101 Year 2024: 80 Property Crimes Decrease of 10.90% Year 2023: 57,126 Year 2024: 50,874 On just the Flock Safety stand-alone implementation, the LVMPD was able to achieve the following: Stolen Vehicle Alerts Increase of 48% Year 2023: 2841 Year 2024: 4194 Suspects Arrested Increase of 17% Year 2023: 544 Year 2024: 639 Despite whatever Techcrunch writes, the LVMPD is just getting started and we are proud to support them in making Las Vegas the safest city in America for all of its citizens.

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I sent an internal email that Axios got a hold of it. Here it is. This is what it is, there is nothing else no matter how it gets characterized: Political Update a16zers, I wanted to give you an update on my political activity. As I mentioned before, Felicia and I have known Vice President Harris for over 10 years and she has been a great friend to both of us during that time. She’s also been a friend to the firm in our early days, helping with several events at my house when we built the original Cultural Leadership Fund network. As a result of our friendship, Felicia and I will be making a significant donation to entities who support the Harris Walz campaign. From a firm perspective, we continue to only take positions consistent with our Little Tech Agenda and how the various candidates that support or don’t support policies to build a strong startup technology industry. Although I have had several conversations with Vice President Harris and her team on their likely tech policies and am encouraged by my belief in her, they have not yet stated what their tech policy will be, so the firm will not be updating its position in that regard. As we stated earlier, the Biden Administration has been exceptionally destructive on tech policy across the industry, but especially as it relates to Crypto/Blockchain and AI. So, while I am very hopeful that the Harris Administration will be much better, they have not yet stated their intentions. Ben

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ā€œKnow you a master manipulator and habitual liar too But don't tell no lie about me and I won't tell truths 'bout youā€ -Kendrick Lamar Sir Michael Moritz is now having his fake disinformation ā€˜newspaper’ fabricate hit pieces on his business rival, me. And, he has chosen to attack my wife, Felicia. Anyone who knows Felicia knows that she has done more than anybody in Silicon Valley to bring people of all walks of life together in tech and lift up the people in society who struggle the most. She continues this work helping people all over the world through her continued support of prison clemency programs like Taking Action for Good, healthcare programs at UMC, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Stanford Hospital and The Ruvo Center for Brain Health, and creative programs for disadvantaged youth like the Chloe and Maud Foundation, The Apollo Theater, Las Vegas Dance and Arts, and Where Art Can Occur among many other causes. She is President of the Paid in Full Foundation, honoring and supporting the original heroes of hip hop. Beyond that, she brings people together from all walks of life and continues to create opportunities for people who would never otherwise have them. Meanwhile, under Moritz’s leadership, his venture firm never hired a single black person. When asked about hiring women, he rejected the notion saying he wouldn’t ā€œlower the bar.ā€ Moritz has now decided to sic his reporter Emily Shugerman on us to imply that Felicia somehow abandoned her work, but Shugerman carefully avoided talking to any of the thousands of people Felicia has helped. The coming article is a cheap hit piece and its premise is blatantly racist. Implying that a black woman cannot make clear decisions on politics consistent with her philanthropic work is gross. Tying a specific statement that I made on technology policy – that Biden’s tech policies regarding crypto, AI, and tax structure were worse than Trump’s proposals – to Felicia is dishonest. When I asked Felicia if she wanted to reply, she simply said: ā€œMike Moritz and Emily Shugerman can kiss the crack of my black ass.ā€ ---- My name is Emily Shugerman and I am a reporter working with the SF Standard. I am working on a story about Ben’s decision to endorse Donald Trump—and Felicia’s apparent support of that decision—as well as your shifting political priorities and alliances over the last several years. I’m sending you a detailed list of topics I intend to cover in case you would like to respond to any points specifically, but am also open to a broader conversation about your political priorities and how they have or have not changed in recent years. @eshugerman @michael_jmoritz

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Raghu Raghuram @RaghuRaghuram Nearly 30 years ago, I hired Raghu Raghuram to be a product manager at Netscape. While I do not remember much from those days, I keenly remember how smart he was. He was also eager to learn absolutely everything. The problem for me was that he was so smart that I did not have much to teach him about the products or technology, so I narrowed our conversations to leadership. As with everything else, he was eager to learn and quickly became the top product manager in the organization. I had a glimpse, but I honestly had no idea what a great leader he would become. I watched from afar as he took over product leadership at VMware. That was quite a feat as the company was founded by my friend Diane Greene, who held her product people to the highest standard in the industry. Naturally, he went on to become Chief Executive Officer where he grew VMware into a platform company with over $13B in revenue and more than 300K customers in 60+ countries; shepherded industry-disrupting acquisitions such as Nicira; and deftly and uniquely steered VMware from on-premise to multi-cloud technology. As a result, he became known as the greatest infrastructure strategist in the game. Ultimately, he led the company through challenging times to the largest software exit ever in the sale to Broadcom. He is an amazing strategist and leader, and I am proud of my small association with him. That is why I am thrilled to announce that Raghu has joined Andreessen Horowitz to push us forward in 3 important areas with 3 significant roles: A General Partner on our AI Infra team where his incredible infrastructure expertise will serve us well. A General Partner on our Growth team where his comprehensive understanding of how to go to market, scale organizations, globalize, and navigate industry changes will be a huge boost for our growth companies. A Managing Partner and my consigliere who will help me run the firm – I could not be more excited to have a partner whose management and leadership skills exceed my own in many areas. This is a dream come true for me and a giant step forward for Andreessen Horowitz.

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Wow, @micsolana nails it exactly. Amazing. @PirateWires for the win.

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We are outta Delaware and now in Nevada a16z.com/were-leaving-d… We’re Leaving Delaware, And We Think You Should Consider Leaving Too | Andreessen Horowitz @JoeLombardoNV

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We were very grateful to have @JDVance speak at our American Dynamism conference and he did not disappoint.

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I so proud of @pmarca's and my 3rd cofounder of @a16z @skupor taking on the big challenges of the country. @realDonaldTrump could not have selected a better person.

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It was an honor to be present @WhiteHouse to see @POTUS sign into law America’s first crypto legislation. This is truly a historic moment.Ā  Stablecoins and crypto offer a full upgrade to the financial and payment systems. It offers an egalitarian system that doesn’t care about what color your skin is or how much you have in your bank account, or if you even have a bank account. This is a win for all Americans. With the passage of stablecoin legislation we entrench the U.S. dollar as the default currency of the world, and are one step closer to making the U.S. the crypto capital of the world.Ā  Thank you to the cosponsors of this overwhelmingly bipartisan bill, including @SenatorHagerty, @SenatorTimScott, @gillibrandny, @SenLummis, @Sen_Alsobrooks, @RepFrenchHill, @CongressmanGT, @RepJeffries, @RitchieTorres, @RepJoshG, and so many more.Ā  Finally, thank you @realDonaldTrump for your continued leadership!

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Rest in Peace to my father @horowitz39 . We love you Dad. David Joel Horowitz was born January 10, 1939 to Phil and Blanche Horowitz in Queens, New York. David was raised in Queens along with his sister Ruth. Phil and Blanche were high school teachers and members of the American Communist Party. Their lives included secret meetings, secret identities and a secret revolutionary plan. As such, they steeped David in Marxist philosophy and world affairs. We sometimes joked that he was the ā€œTiger Woods of Communismā€ as he was raised to be the Party’s next great player. He thought that was funny, because like Tiger he never had a choice in the matter. The impact of his upbringing was profound, but David's life would prove to be shaped by his own self-described irrational desire to ā€œsave the world.ā€ While this impulse began as a highly abstract concept, David would spend a lifetime refining it, sharpening it, completely revising it and ultimately making it his life’s mission. David attended Bryant High School in Queens, NY. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1959 majoring in English. He then earned a master's degree in English literature from University of California, Berkeley. In 1959, he instantly fell in love with and married Elissa Krauthamer. They would have four children: Jonathan Daniel, Sarah Rose, Benjamin Abraham, and Anne Deborah. In 1962, at 23 years old, David wrote and published his first book, Student, which detailed the political activities of students on the UC Berkeley campus. While at Berkeley, David became frustrated with his Shakespeare professor, so he wrote his own lecture series which he delivered and was widely attended by students all across the campus. He eventually published the series in his second book: Shakespeare: an Existential View. This superhuman confidence and ability to back it up would become thematic throughout David’s life. Later David and Elissa moved to London, England where David studied under Ralph Miliband and became close friends with Isaac Deutscher. Later David would write Deutscher’s biography. Also while in London, in 1965 David wrote The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War, which became the book that made him a force on the new left. In 1968, David and Elissa moved the family back to the United States and purchased a home in Berkeley, California where they would raise their four children. In his continued mission to save the world, in 1968 David became co-editor of the new left magazine Ramparts. While at Ramparts, David developed a close friendship with Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. As part of their work together, David helped raise money for, and assisted the Panthers with, the running of a school for poor children in Oakland. He later recommended that Newton hire his friend Betty Van Patter as bookkeeper; she was then working for Ramparts. In December 1974, Van Patter's body was found floating in San Francisco Harbor; she had been murdered by the Panthers for knowing too much. The murder forced David to confront a truth that he had long suspected. It made clear to him that the pursuit of a marxist utopia was a false and unachievable goal. Diabolically, the goal created a religion. The religion then cloaked the movement’s leaders with an invincible moral standing enabling them to commit atrocities with impunity for their own gain. He was horrified that he had been part of it and it caused him to rethink his entire life. The decision was not easy. His family, friends, and career were all deeply tied to ā€œthe movement.ā€ If he were to make this change, he would essentially need to start from scratch. So, he stayed away from politics for a while and changed to a neutral career. He became a biographer and journalist. It was a hugely risky move to change careers at 34 years old with a family of 6 in tow. In a testament to David’s supreme confidence, indomitable will and massive talent, he was an instant success. His first biography The Rockefeller’s An American Dynasty – written with his best friend and long time colleague Peter Collier – was a blockbuster bestseller. Their next biography The Kennedy’s An American Drama was an even bigger success becoming a number 1 New York Times bestseller. All the while, David kept an eye on and a hand in politics. While he needed a break to sort out his life, nothing in life would deter him from his mission. In 1981, San Francisco Chronicle writer Randy Schiltz tipped David and Peter to a potential epidemic known as AIDS, which was rapidly spreading through the bath houses in San Francisco. Schiltz was concerned that the leaders in the Gay Community were intimidating the medical establishment into covering up the way it was transmitted and therefore keeping the bath houses open, which would cause it to spread out of control . Randy was too terrified to write about it himself as he did not want to be attacked by the community. David, never one to fear anything, took on the story. In 1981, he and Peter published Whitewash: Gay Leaders in California Have Obscured Vital Information About How the AIDS Disease Spreads. The aggressive reaction to the story (references to the article still call David a ā€œhomophobeā€) reinforced David’s suspicions. If leaders on the left were willing to sacrifice millions of gay lives to preserve their power and orthodoxy, what wouldn’t they do? The article, the experience, and the ocean of death that followed were the final straw in David’s conversion from his Marxist roots to a leading thinker on the right. He formalized his position on March 17, 1985 when he and Peter published Lefties for Reagan in The Washington Post. David departed the left for good. The change would cost him nearly everything – all of his friends, coverage in the New York Times Book Review (essential for authors at the time), and countless lost earnings. He would have to start all over. But if the world needed saving from his former comrades on the left, that’s exactly what he would do. Later he would note that the right never excommunicated apostates the way he had been abandoned by the left. He often complained that he had ā€œthe rescue gene.ā€ For David, this meant nothing animated him more than someone in need of help. He would instantly leap into action, making every phone call, raising every dollar, and doing anything in his power to save that person. The realization that he had been party to the destructive force activated his rescue gene and infused him with an energy that would produce dozens of books, countless public appearances, and nearly nonstop work for the next 4 decades. In 1996, he captured this saga in his autobiography Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey where he retraced his life’s and political journey. 1998 proved to be a seminal year for David when he met his angel April Mullivain whom he would marry and who, along with her son John Jay, would watch over him until his passing. In 1998, he also founded The Horowitz Freedom Center, where he recruited an inspired group of new young intellectuals to join his cause. The name ā€œFreedom Centerā€ meant much more than most ever understood. While David became known for his change in views, in a sense he never changed at all. His personal style represented the place and community from which he came. Even when he wore a suit, he looked like a radical forced into it due to a court date or a wedding. More importantly, his mission to save the world centered around freedom. When David went to rescue people, it was always from oppression imposed by some person or group. Early on, he had been trained to think the rich capitalists were the oppressors. His political change came from the realization that his side was doing the oppressing. Protected by the guise of being ā€œfor the peopleā€, the Panthers took Betty’s life. The progressives left millions to die of AIDS, so they could preserve their leadership positions. His former friends on the left brutally excommunicated him from all their social relationships to reign power over him. It became clear that to fight for freedom, he had to be on the right and so the Freedom Center was born. From the Freedom Center, he published thousands of high impact articles and books. He understood the systematic implications of seemingly benign cultural changes and used that knowledge to predict much of the future. Notably, he precisely forecast the intense campus antisemitism of 2024 in his book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America published in 2006. In 2007, David was crushed by the passing of his beloved daughter Sarah Rose who, more than any of his other children, inherited his indomitable spirit and passion for politics. She had finally succumbed to long-time chronic degeneration from her genetic condition Turner’s Syndrome. He captured the experience in his most intimate and perhaps his best book A Cracking of the Heart in 2009. By the twenty teens, David had long been frustrated by what he referred to as the ā€œsoft, gentlemanlyā€ tactics of the Republican Party. He lamented that the Republicans were bringing a nerf gun to a nuclear war. He intimately knew the left’s tactics and desperately wanted his party to match them. His wish was granted when a new kind of candidate, Donald J. Trump, won the Republican nomination. David responded instantly with the best articulation of the Trump strategy in Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America. Later, in 2024, his son Benjamin would meet President Trump and mention David. President Trump’s face immediately lit up and he insisted that Benjamin get David on the phone immediately. Hospitalized and weak, David was still delighted to speak with the President and know that his message was heard and heeded. In 2024, David published America Betrayed: How a Christian Monk Created America & Why the Left Is Determined to Destroy Her. In it, he carefully explained how the Catholic Church – through the indulgences – had removed the freedom inherent in being accountable to God and replaced them with the oppression of being accountable to the church. He then explained how that same idea had come back into vogue in the U.S. Right up until the final moments, David fought for freedom. In the end, David helped countless people and expended every fiber of his being pushing society towards freedom. He may not have saved the world, but he most certainly made it a better place – especially for us. He was our super hero and we will love him forever.

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I sent an internal email that Axios got a hold of it. Here it is. This is what it is, there is nothing else no matter how it gets characterized: Political Update a16zers, I wanted to give you an update on my political activity. As I mentioned before, Felicia and I have known Vice President Harris for over 10 years and she has been a great friend to both of us during that time. She’s also been a friend to the firm in our early days, helping with several events at my house when we built the original Cultural Leadership Fund network. As a result of our friendship, Felicia and I will be making a significant donation to entities who support the Harris Walz campaign. From a firm perspective, we continue to only take positions consistent with our Little Tech Agenda and how the various candidates that support or don’t support policies to build a strong startup technology industry. Although I have had several conversations with Vice President Harris and her team on their likely tech policies and am encouraged by my belief in her, they have not yet stated what their tech policy will be, so the firm will not be updating its position in that regard. As we stated earlier, the Biden Administration has been exceptionally destructive on tech policy across the industry, but especially as it relates to Crypto/Blockchain and AI. So, while I am very hopeful that the Harris Administration will be much better, they have not yet stated their intentions. Ben

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ā€œYou can hate me now, but I won’t stop now.ā€ - Nas It has come to my attention that Techcrunch is working on yet another piece on me. This time they seem to be curious about my donations to the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. To save everyone some time and from yet another unsubstantiated narrative, I thought I’d share how I’ve been helping the LVMPD become the most technologically advanced police department in the world. There were several reasons why I wanted to do this project and why I wanted to do it in Las Vegas: Public safety is incredibly important and impacts everyone. My wife Felicia grew up in a very high crime area and saw many of her friends murdered. These murders may sound like statistics to some, but they destroy families and lives. The key to making citizens, police, and suspects safer is better intelligence. If you do not have 1 on 1 confrontations between people with guns, that helps. If you don’t have high speed car chases, and you don’t have to chase people over fences and onto roofs, that makes everyone much safer. If people know that they are unlikely to get away with crimes, they are less likely to commit them. Our American Dynamism effort has been amazing in making the best technology available to the public sector, but the public sector often has trouble budgeting for strategic technology projects. By donating the technology, I am able to give LVMPD a running start. The LVMPD is perhaps the best in the country as exemplified by their incredibly high murder solve rate of 92%, which is the highest in the nation. I believed further enabling the incredible officers of the LVMPD would yield great results and it has. So what have we done so far that Techcrunch is investigating? We have been busy. There is much to investigate as there have been several areas of need. First, the LVMPD needed to solidify the basic technology of the department. Las Vegas added major events such as F1 and the Super Bowl, but didn’t correspondingly increase police funding. Specifically, they were short on computer terminals for officers, so Felicia and I donated $800,000 worth of new computer terminals. Next, Las Vegas was having difficulty retaining 911 operators. 911 is an incredibly stressful job and the attrition rate got so high that it was taking over 5 minutes to respond to emergency calls. In diagnosing the problem with Chief Mike Gennaro, we came up with a multifaceted solution. First, the LVMPD needed to fix the basic work environment. Felicia and I donated a new ice machine, a new cappuccino machine, and a new gymnasium to make a stressful job more pleasant. These new facilities were around $120,000. Next, we wanted to outfit them with the latest and greatest in emergency call technology, so we donated $400,000 to purchase technology from one of our portfolio companies, Prepared911. I am thrilled to report that attrition is way down and 911 calls are being answered in 30 seconds. Finally, the LVMPD wanted to radically improve its intelligence and situational awareness. To do this we donated approximately $6.3 million dollars towards the purchase of two state-of-the-art public safety technologies from Skydio and Flock Safety, also a16z portfolio companies. These technologies have been deployed with great success in cities like San Francisco as recently described by Mayor London Breed. The technologies put the LVMPD in a position of knowledge. For example, if someone steals a car with a baby in it, the Flock Safety system will locate and geotag the license plate, then a Skydio drone is automatically sent to monitor the situation. The camera feed from the drone will be sent to every police officer’s cell phone, so that they can approach the situation with the appropriate resources leading to a recovery of the child and a safe apprehension of the suspect. The early results of these efforts have been spectacular and will get much better as the LVMPDĀ  approaches full deployment. For the 911 emergency service, the YTD average through September 2024 for calls answered in less than 15 seconds is 95%, up from 66% for the same time period in 2023. The general year over year crime statistics improved as follows: Shootings Decrease of 21.40% Year 2023: 668 Year 2024: 525 Shooting Victims Decrease of 24.20% Year 2023: 302 Year 2024: 229 Homicides (current solve rate 94%) Decrease of 20.79% Year 2023: 101 Year 2024: 80 Property Crimes Decrease of 10.90% Year 2023: 57,126 Year 2024: 50,874 On just the Flock Safety stand-alone implementation, the LVMPD was able to achieve the following: Stolen Vehicle Alerts Increase of 48% Year 2023: 2841 Year 2024: 4194 Suspects Arrested Increase of 17% Year 2023: 544 Year 2024: 639 Despite whatever Techcrunch writes, the LVMPD is just getting started and we are proud to support them in making Las Vegas the safest city in America for all of its citizens.

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ā€œKnow you a master manipulator and habitual liar too But don't tell no lie about me and I won't tell truths 'bout youā€ -Kendrick Lamar Sir Michael Moritz is now having his fake disinformation ā€˜newspaper’ fabricate hit pieces on his business rival, me. And, he has chosen to attack my wife, Felicia. Anyone who knows Felicia knows that she has done more than anybody in Silicon Valley to bring people of all walks of life together in tech and lift up the people in society who struggle the most. She continues this work helping people all over the world through her continued support of prison clemency programs like Taking Action for Good, healthcare programs at UMC, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Stanford Hospital and The Ruvo Center for Brain Health, and creative programs for disadvantaged youth like the Chloe and Maud Foundation, The Apollo Theater, Las Vegas Dance and Arts, and Where Art Can Occur among many other causes. She is President of the Paid in Full Foundation, honoring and supporting the original heroes of hip hop. Beyond that, she brings people together from all walks of life and continues to create opportunities for people who would never otherwise have them. Meanwhile, under Moritz’s leadership, his venture firm never hired a single black person. When asked about hiring women, he rejected the notion saying he wouldn’t ā€œlower the bar.ā€ Moritz has now decided to sic his reporter Emily Shugerman on us to imply that Felicia somehow abandoned her work, but Shugerman carefully avoided talking to any of the thousands of people Felicia has helped. The coming article is a cheap hit piece and its premise is blatantly racist. Implying that a black woman cannot make clear decisions on politics consistent with her philanthropic work is gross. Tying a specific statement that I made on technology policy – that Biden’s tech policies regarding crypto, AI, and tax structure were worse than Trump’s proposals – to Felicia is dishonest. When I asked Felicia if she wanted to reply, she simply said: ā€œMike Moritz and Emily Shugerman can kiss the crack of my black ass.ā€ ---- My name is Emily Shugerman and I am a reporter working with the SF Standard. I am working on a story about Ben’s decision to endorse Donald Trump—and Felicia’s apparent support of that decision—as well as your shifting political priorities and alliances over the last several years. I’m sending you a detailed list of topics I intend to cover in case you would like to respond to any points specifically, but am also open to a broader conversation about your political priorities and how they have or have not changed in recent years. @eshugerman @michael_jmoritz

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Raghu Raghuram @RaghuRaghuram Nearly 30 years ago, I hired Raghu Raghuram to be a product manager at Netscape. While I do not remember much from those days, I keenly remember how smart he was. He was also eager to learn absolutely everything. The problem for me was that he was so smart that I did not have much to teach him about the products or technology, so I narrowed our conversations to leadership. As with everything else, he was eager to learn and quickly became the top product manager in the organization. I had a glimpse, but I honestly had no idea what a great leader he would become. I watched from afar as he took over product leadership at VMware. That was quite a feat as the company was founded by my friend Diane Greene, who held her product people to the highest standard in the industry. Naturally, he went on to become Chief Executive Officer where he grew VMware into a platform company with over $13B in revenue and more than 300K customers in 60+ countries; shepherded industry-disrupting acquisitions such as Nicira; and deftly and uniquely steered VMware from on-premise to multi-cloud technology. As a result, he became known as the greatest infrastructure strategist in the game. Ultimately, he led the company through challenging times to the largest software exit ever in the sale to Broadcom. He is an amazing strategist and leader, and I am proud of my small association with him. That is why I am thrilled to announce that Raghu has joined Andreessen Horowitz to push us forward in 3 important areas with 3 significant roles: A General Partner on our AI Infra team where his incredible infrastructure expertise will serve us well. A General Partner on our Growth team where his comprehensive understanding of how to go to market, scale organizations, globalize, and navigate industry changes will be a huge boost for our growth companies. A Managing Partner and my consigliere who will help me run the firm – I could not be more excited to have a partner whose management and leadership skills exceed my own in many areas. This is a dream come true for me and a giant step forward for Andreessen Horowitz.

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We were very grateful to have @JDVance speak at our American Dynamism conference and he did not disappoint.

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We are outta Delaware and now in Nevada a16z.com/were-leaving-d… We’re Leaving Delaware, And We Think You Should Consider Leaving Too | Andreessen Horowitz @JoeLombardoNV

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