Marc Andreesen
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Marc Andreesen is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 10, 2024 and December 17, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “The other opponent everyone talks about is Marc Andreesen and his Andreesen Horowitz (“A16Z”) venture capital firm”; “Marc Andreesen went on Joe Rogan and made some explosive claims about the government debanking crypto founders for political reasons”. It most often appears alongside Garrison Lovely, Meta, SB 1047.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: October 10, 2024
- Last seen: December 17, 2024
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- Garrison Lovely (2 shared issues)
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- Meta (2 shared issues)
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- SB 1047 (2 shared issues)
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- X (2 shared issues)
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- 2016 US Presidential election (1 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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- @GroundHogStrat (1 shared issues)
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- A.I. salons (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grant (1 shared issues)
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- Adam McKay (1 shared issues)
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- ADUs (1 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The other opponent everyone talks about is Marc Andreesen and his Andreesen Horowitz (“A16Z”) venture capital firm. Their campaign was especially public-facing, confrontational, and dishonest, and got most of the Twitter buzz. But in the end they were only one of several major players, and maybe not the one with the most political clout.
43: Also related to crypto: Marc Andreesen went on Joe Rogan and made some explosive claims about the government debanking crypto founders for political reasons. These increasingly seem to be false. Patrick McKenzie has a good (albeit long and complicated) rundown here - the summary is that ordinary anti-money-laundering laws which predate cryptocurrency tell banks to be on the watch for certain dangerous transaction patterns, and crypto companies have those patterns. And after the nth time that a bank closed a crypto company account and the founder had the brilliant idea to game the system by running the company out of their personal account, the banks started closing crypto founders’ personal accounts too - something which they’re permitted to do by ordinary freedom-of-businesses-to-choose-clients laws. Jesse Singal goes into more detail on some other mistakes here - for example, Andreesen accused a regulator called the CFPB of being behind the debanking conspiracy, but CFPB has nothing to do with crypto, actually has been pretty principled in opposing debanking for conservatives, and Andreesen might have a grudge against them because of a time they shut down one of his companies for repeatedly deceiving its customers.