Andreessen Horowitz

Techno-feudal Investors
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To understand what is this a16z thing you need to understand, first and foremost, this psychotic badly written hallucination, as the ideological masterpiece of this feudal investment firm:

Marc Andreessen
Posted October 16, 2023

This manifesto has section named [1]:

The Enemy
Which is many ways is the definition of his own self and his investments and Israeli/Zionist partners:

Our enemy is speech control and thought control – the increasing use, in plain sight, of George Orwell’s “1984” as an instruction manual.

Israeli Ideology: Our enemy is deceleration, de-growth, depopulation – the nihilistic wish, so trendy among our elites, for fewer people, less energy, and more suffering and death.

Our enemy is Friedrich Nietzsche’s Last Man:

… (bunch of English sentences from some Nietzsche’s work)

Our enemy is … that.
We aspire to be … not that.

This man and his firm invests and profits from Gaza genocide: Become our allies in the pursuit of technology, abundance, and life.

Intelligence

We believe Artificial Intelligence is our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone – we are literally making sand think.

We believe Artificial Intelligence is best thought of as a universal problem solver. And we have a lot of problems to solve.

We believe Artificial Intelligence can save lives – if we let it. Medicine, among many other fields, is in the stone age

Venture Capitalists Are Using Profits From Genocide to Fund AI-Powered Weapons [2]

Arms makers are teaming up with venture capital firms in a push to bring AI to the battlefield.

By

Nick Mottern ,

Truthout

Published

February 2, 2026

Andreessen Horowitz, a primary backer of Shield AI, invests in Israeli high-tech firms. According to CTech, Andreessen Horowitz officials visited Israel in August 2025 for “a series of closed-door events aimed at recruiting top entrepreneurial talent from Israel’s elite military units” for firms in which Andreessen Horowitz invests.

In 2024,according to OpenSecrets, Andreessen Horowitz oversaw distribution of $89 million to PACs, parties, and individual politicians. By comparison, Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest military contractor, contributed $5.6 million.

Profiting From Israel’s Genocide

Many of the largest VCs that are funding cutting edge AI weapons development for the Pentagon — such as Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, General Catalyst, Hercules Capital, Shield Capital, and Sequoia Capital — are also investing in Israeli high-tech firms, thus profiting from Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Andreessen Horowitz eyes elite IDF tech talent in rescheduled Israel visit [3]

Following wartime postponement, VC giant seeks early access to top entrepreneurs for Speedrun accelerator.

Meir Orbach

13:30, 06.08.25

Andreessen Horowitz, the powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firm managing approximately $45 billion, is rescheduling its planned visit to Israel for August 25–29 after its original late-June trip was delayed due to the war with Iran. The new visit, part of a broader effort to deepen the firm’s presence in the Israeli tech ecosystem, will include a series of closed-door events aimed at recruiting top entrepreneurial talent from Israel’s elite military units.

The rescheduled trip will be led by a16z General Partner Jon Lai and investment partner Troy Kirwin, who will host a pair of invitation-only gatherings in Tel Aviv to promote the firm’s accelerator, the a16z Speedrun program. The initiative is designed to back Seed and pre-Seed startups at their earliest stages, often before companies are formally established.

Andreessen Horowitz has rapidly expanded its activity in Israel in recent years. One of its most high-profile deals was leading the final funding round for cybersecurity unicorn Wiz in May 2024, just weeks before Wiz’s $32 billion acquisition by Google. That round brought in $1 billion at a $12 billion valuation and marked a16z’s most aggressive Israeli bet to date.

Andreessen Horowitz steps up Israeli investments as local funds struggle to raise capital

Facing a downturn, Israeli VCs take a back seat while U.S. giants dominate the startup scene. [4]

Meir Orbach

06:30, 10.09.24

The American venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most prominent investors in Silicon Valley, has increased its activity in Israel, according to the IVC-Gornitzky-KPMG investors report for the first half of 2024. The report notes that the fund invested in four companies in Israel in the first six months of the year. Lightspeed also made four investments during this period, with Insight Partners making three investments. However, many of the older local funds, such as Pitango, Viola, JVP, and Qumra, are notably absent from the list of funds, with each of them making fewer than four investments.

[1] The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz

[2] https://truthout.org/articles/venture-capitalists-are-using-profits-from-genocide-to-fund-ai-powered-weapons/

[3] Andreessen Horowitz eyes elite IDF tech talent in rescheduled Israel visit | Ctech

[4] Andreessen Horowitz steps up Israeli investments as local funds struggle to raise cap | Ctech

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What is Horowitz in Andreessen Horowitz?

He is the son of American right-wing conservative don’t-call-me-Zionist:

David Horowitz Freedom Center

In 1998 Horowitz and Peter Collier founded the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[41] Politico states that Horowitz’s activities and DHFC are funded in part by Aubrey and Joyce Chernick and The Bradley Foundation. Politico stated that during 2008–2010, “the lion’s share of the $920,000 it [DHFC] provided over the past three years to Jihad Watch came from [Joyce] Chernick”.[42] Between July 2000 and February 2006 the freedom center provided a total of $43,000 in funding for 25 trips taken by Republican senators and representatives including Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, Bob Barr, Fred Thompson and others.[43] In 2015, Horowitz made $583,000 (~$751,694 in 2024) from the organization.[44]

Horowitz was the editor of the Center’s website FrontPage Magazine. It has been described by scholars and writers as right-wing,[49] far-right,[53] Islamophobic,[57] and anti-Islam.[60]

Race

During his time in the New Left, Horowitz supported the civil rights movement. In the 1970s, he came to believe that the Black Panthers were involved in the death of his friend Betty Van Patter, souring the relationship between Horowitz and the Black Panthers.[78]

In a 2001 column in Salon[79] he described his opposition to reparations for slavery, calling it racism against blacks, as it defined them only in terms of their descent from slaves. He argued that applying labels like “descendants of slaves” to blacks was damaging and would serve to segregate them from mainstream society. In the same year during Black History Month, Horowitz attempted to purchase advertising space in several American university student publications to express his opposition to reparations.[79] Many student papers refused to sell him ad space; at some schools, papers that carried his ads were stolen or destroyed.[79] Joan Walsh said the furor had given Horowitz an overwhelming amount of free publicity.[79][80]

In 2018, Horowitz attracted many critical comments by attacking the Equal Justice Initiative’s new National Memorial for Peace and Justice, calling it “a real racist project”[81] showing “anti-white racism”.[82] “Lynchings were bad but they weren’t mainly about whites yanking blacks off the streets and stringing them up”.[82] “A third of the victims of lynchings were white. How many of them do you think this memorial features [sic].”[83]

Criticism of Islam and Arab cultures

Horowitz was critical of Palestinians, claiming that their goal is to wipe out Jews from the Middle East.[84] “No people have shown themselves as so morally sick as the Palestinians,” he said at Brooklyn College in 2011.[85]

Horowitz published a 2007 piece in the Columbia University student newspaper, saying that, according to public opinion polls, “150 million out of 750 million Muslims support a holy war against Christians, Jews, and other Muslims.”[86] Speaking at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in February 2010, Horowitz compared Islamists to Nazis, saying: “Islamists are worse than the Nazis, because even the Nazis did not tell the world that they want to exterminate the Jews.”[87]

Horowitz created a campaign for what he called “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” in parody of multicultural awareness activities. He helped arrange for leading critics of radical Islam to speak at more than a hundred college campuses in October 2007.[88] As a speaker, he was repeatedly met with intense hostility.[89][90]

In 2008, while speaking at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Horowitz criticized Arab culture, saying that it was rife with antisemitism.[91] He referred to the Palestinian keffiyeh, a traditional Arab head covering that became associated with PLO leader Yasser Arafat, as a “symbol of terrorism”. In response, UCSB professor Walid Afifi said that Horowitz was “preaching hate” and smearing Arab culture.[91]

Horowitz used university student publications and lectures at universities as venues for publishing controversial advertisements or lecturing on issues related to Islamic student and other organizations. In April 2008, DHFC advertised in the Daily Nexus, the UCSB school newspaper, saying that the Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) had links with the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, and Hamas.[92] The next month, Horowitz, speaking at UCSB, said that MSA supports “a second Holocaust of the Jews”.[91] The MSA responded that they were a peaceful organization and not a political group.[92] The MSA’s faculty adviser said the group had “been involved in interfaith activities with Jewish student groups, and they’ve been involved in charity work for national disaster relief.”[91] Horowitz ran the ad in The GW Hatchet, the student newspaper of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Jake Sherman, the Hatchet’s editor-in-chief, said claims the MSA was radical were “ludicrous”.[93]

He became an early user of the question “Do you condemn Hamas?” which he directed to a Muslim student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on May 11, 2010.[94][95] The student was a member of UCSD’s Muslim Student Association, then holding Justice in Palestine Week, which students said Horowitz had referred to as “Hitler Youth Week”.[94][95] In 2017, Horowitz’s Freedom Center targeted pro-Palestinian professors and students.[96]

In a 2011 review of anti-Islamic activists in the US, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified Horowitz as one of ten people in the United States’ “Anti-Muslim Inner Circle”.[97] He was also described as “the godfather of the anti-Muslim movement”,[98][99] and as “possibly the number one counter-jihad personality”, financing many other groups through his organization.[100]

In 2017 Horowitz’s center put up posters on university campuses naming students and professors who support Palestinian rights, with the names taken from the anonymous doxxing group Canary Mission.[101][102]

In his own words [1]

“I’m drawing attention to all these neo-Nazi Muslims and leftists because this is the overlooked but real neo-Nazi movement in America. Richard Spencer and his Charlottesville idiots are marginal and have no significant following, unlike SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine] and the campus Jew-hating left.” —Twitter, December 25, 2017

“The faculties of our liberal arts schools in America and in England are dominated by communists and pro-terrorists. And that may sound extreme, but it’s actually not.” — Interview with J-TV, May 16, 2017

“The difference between Islamic fanatics, or Jew haters, and Hitler is that Hitler hid the Final Solution, and the Iranians and Hezbollah shout it from the rooftops. And the whole Muslim world accepts it.” — Speech at the University of Southern California, March 23, 2016

“He’s [President Obama] an evil man, in that sense, yes. He is destroying our borders. He will send emissaries to Ferguson for a street thug who got himself killed attempting to disarm a police officer, resisting arrest. But when a beautiful young woman who happens to be white, and is a good Samaritan, when she is murdered by someone that he is chiefly responsible for getting into this country, he won’t even pick up the phone to call her parents. He is systematically destroying America.” — Fox News, August 4, 2015

“Obama is an anti-American radical and I’m actually sure he’s a Muslim, he certainly isn’t a Christian. He’s a pretend Christian in the same way he’s a pretend American. It really is disgraceful. He’s inviting the terrorists to behead more Americans when he should be attacking them with our military. His whole agenda in office has been to defeat America, he lost the war in Iraq deliberately, he created a vacuum which ISIS has filled.” — Interview on “Today’s Issues,” August 21, 2014

“[The Boston bombers] hated us because they were fanatical believers in the idea that Mohammed had desired them to kill infidels and purify the earth for Allah. This is the face of our enemy and the sooner the delusional liberals among us wake up to this fact, the safer all of us will be.” — FrontPage Magazine, April 19, 2013

“The problem is when you have a religion which preaches war and violence and hate, rationality is never gonna take over.” — Horowitz speech at Brooklyn College March 10, 2011

“Why are 80 of the mosques [in America] filled with hate against Jews and against Americans and Democrats?” — Horowitz speech at Brooklyn College, March 10, 2011

“The Palestinians are Nazis. Every one of their elected officials are terrorists.” — Horowitz speech at University of Massachusetts Amherst, February 23, 2010

“If not for the sacrifices of white soldiers and a white American president who gave his life to sign the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks in America would still be slaves … Where is the gratitude of black America and its leaders for those gifts?” —“Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Is a Bad Idea — and Racist Too,” FrontPage Magazine, January 3, 2001

“Unfortunately, as a nation we have become so trapped in the melodrama of black victimization and white oppression that we are in danger of losing all sense of proportion. If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?” —“Guns Don’t Kill Black People, Other Blacks Do,” Salon, August 16, 1999

[1] David Horowitz