@levelsio: As a now newly minted venture capital investor in true VC fashion we dropped by @a16z to find more deals Andreessen Hor…
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A newly minted VC investor recounts his visit to Andreessen Horowitz, reflecting on the firm's 'American Dynamism' manifesto and its resonance with the e/acc movement, while noting the Art Deco decor and expressing interest in investing.
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As a now newly minted venture capital investor in true VC fashion we dropped by @a16z to find more deals
Andreessen Horowitz is one of the largest VC funds in the world managing about $90B in assets and founded by @pmarca and @bhorowitz in 2009
In 2022, a16z published the “American Dynamism” manifesto, which has a lot of overlap with e/acc, because since ~2016 American culture had become very anti-tech and pessimistic about the future with the birth of the degrowth movement
Growth was bad, inventing new things was bad, everything was problematic!
American Dynamism promoted being optimistic about the future and technological growth, which seems obvious in the America of today, but it wasn’t obvious at all in 2022, and it’s thanks to that and many other things that you see America excelling again in 2026
@stuffyokodraws invited us to their office and kindly showed us around!
They have a free coworking for their portfolio companies to use, in case they don’t have an office yet and also I heard there’s lots of robots but I didn’t see them today
Most interesting is at the front desk is a very beautiful Art Deco sculpture on the wall (I heard it’s new)
And that’s not a coincidence. Exactly 100 years ago, Art Deco was the art movement that was also about relentless optimism and growth, like American Dynamism and e/acc! It’s my favorite art movement (and my dad’s too)
Sadly we did not run into @pmarca, maybe next time!
Anyway I’d love to invest in more companies with all my saved up money from 95% indie hacker profit margins because it can’t all go into ETFs! So if you’re interested, check my little http://levels.vc page and try find my email
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