Inside Andreessen’s Growing Political Influence
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[0:00] As Republicans fight to keep control of the federal government in this November's midterms, their biggest
[0:04] financial backers aren't likely to be the Edelsons or Koch families or even Elon Musk, but
[0:09] rather Andreessen Hordern, the family backed VC firm commonly known as a sixteen z has long
[0:16] been a kingmaker in Silicon Valley. It's now on track to contribute as much money to
[0:20] Republican campaigns this election season as George Soros has to the other side.
[0:24] The de facto leader of this powerful political operation is a sixteen z cofounder Marc Andreessen.
[0:29] Andreessen is on the board of Meta and Coinbase, now serves in prominent advisory roles with
[0:34] the Pentagon and the Federal Reserve. In his latest Bloomberg Businessweek piece, features writer Austin Carr
[0:40] explores why Marc Andreessen is so mad and how AI, crypto, and DEI drove him to
[0:45] MAGA. Austin joins us now. Austin, let's let's start at the beginning here. Let's go to
[0:49] 05/22/2024. Marc Andreessen in a meeting at the White House with Jeff Science, his old friend,
[0:56] if I could pause it. That's somebody with whom he served on the meta board for
[0:59] for many years. By one telling, it doesn't go well, and that's Marc Andreessen. What what
[1:03] happened in that meeting? What do we learn of it from your reporting?
[1:06] So it's very rare, you know, when