noted #broligarch, #DOGE bro, and funder of innumerable ponzi schemes and gambling apps Marc Andreessen of #a16z fame took a shot at the #pope a few days ago over on #X (the everything app). it did not go well for him.
https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/marc-andreessen-as-avatar-for-societal
#a16z #MarcAndreessen #uspol #uspolitics #PopeLeo #catholic #catholicism
Cluely’s Roy Lee hints that viral hype is not enough
#Stablecoins are doing trillions in #transactions #volume, they now rival the #world's #largest #payment #networks. Via #a16z #crypto #currencies
#Stablecoins are doing trillions in #transactions #volume, they now rival the #world's #largest #payment #networks.
Via #a16z
#crypto #currencies
a16z pauses its famed TxO Fund for underserved founders, lays off staff
Ouch. Sources say a16z is hitting pause on its Talent x Opportunity fund for underserved founders and cutting staff. It's a tough market, but what does this mean for the future of diverse founder support? When the big players pull back, who steps up?
#VCFunding #TechIndustry #DiversityInTech #StartupLife #a16z
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/a16z-pauses-its-famed-txo-fund-for-underserved-founders-lays-off-staff/
@huronbikes #a16z and #MarcAndreessen were most infamously behind #AxieInfinity, which was literally just gamified debt bondage for citizens of developing countries
https://time.com/6199385/axie-infinity-crypto-game-philippines-debt/
the latest and greatest from Marc Andreessen’s #a16z is #Coverd, an app to let you gamble on your child support payments and #OnlyFans bill.
no, really. and they’re also launching a credit card which promises 100% cash back or something? this is truly the “american dynamism” we were promised.
#broligarchy #nerdreich #uspol #finance #economics #MarcAndreessen #crypto #predatoryLending #paydaylenders
new CEO of the favourite #bank of both the #crypto industry as well as #GeorgeSantos was just arrested for child sex stuff and maybe even child slavery (“buying or selling of children” is allegedly among his charges).
Reminder that Evolve Bank & Trust was:
- george santos & andy ogles campaigns' bank
- #FTX debit card provider
- #synapse bankruptcy disaster banking partner
- hacked by #russia
- a venezuelan money laundry
and those are the confirmed offences. one assumes there are at least a few bodies that have not floated to the surface yet.
#uspol #evolvebank #evolvebankandtrust #AndyOgles #tnpol #tennessee #nypol #nyc #Venezuela #Grindr #uspolitics #CSAM #ChildAbuse #tnpol #a16z
Your occasional and irregular reminder that "Hacker" "News" is neither.
"What if your coworkers were AI? What if AI agents, not humans, monitored security camera feeds? What if you had an AI tech recruiter to find motivated candidates, or an entirely autonomous recruiting firm? What if UPS, but AI, or finance, but DeepMind?
Does that sound like absolute hell on Earth? Well, too bad, because the giant Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is giving companies up to $1 million each to develop every single one of these ideas as part of its Speedrun program.
Speedrun is an accelerator program startups can apply to in order to receive funding from a16z as well as a “fast‐paced, 12-week startup program that guides founders through every critical stage of their growth,” according to Speedrun’s site. “It kicks off with an orientation to introduce the cohort, then dives into rapid product development—helping founders think through MVP while addressing key topics like customer acquisition and design partnerships.”
The program covers brand building, customer acquisition and launch, fundraising, team building, and more. The selected startups and founders meet each other, and receive the curriculum via workshops and keynote sections from “luminary speakers” such as Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Figma co-founder Dylan Field, a16z’s namesakes Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, and others.
Silicon Valley incubators and accelerators are common, but I’ve rarely seen such an unappetizing buffet of bad ideas as Speedrun’s AI-centric 2025 cohort."
https://www.404media.co/a16z-is-funding-a-speedrun-to-ai-generated-hell-on-earth/
a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
🌍 ZAR, con el respaldo de #a16z, asegura $12.9M para democratizar las #stablecoins en Pakistán. Su plan: usar tiendas y quioscos de barrio para llegar a millones de no bancarizados. ¡La inclusión financiera se expande!
a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
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#a16z -Backed #Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic #Influencers ’ to Manipulate #SocialMedia as a Service
… building a service that allows clients to “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” Essentially, the startup, called #Doublespeed , is pitching an astroturfing AI-powered #bot service, which is in clear violation of policies for all major social media platforms.
#ai #artificialintelligence
« A new startup backed by one of the biggest venture capital firms in #SiliconValley, Andreessen Horowitz (#a16z), is building a service that allows clients to “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” Essentially, the startup, called #Doublespeed, is pitching an #astroturfing #AI-powered bot service, which is in clear violation of policies for all major #SocialMedia platforms. » on @404mediaco
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
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