First GP hired at @a16z. 1st gen immigrant who got all the breaks. Passionate believer in a strong, democratic, diverse, equitable America. Resigned May 1 2025.
Joined March 2009
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Jan 25
Wondering how the eager tech enablers of this regime, including some of my former VC friends and partners, are rationalizing this atrocity. Just the latest in a year of horrors.
Is all the crypto and AI money in the world really worth this?
Drop Site obtained harrowing footage of the latest killing which appears to be from the perspective of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk
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Jun 12
Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?
Jun 12
JD Vance:
If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.
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World War II ended with unconditional surrenders by Germany on May 8, 1945, and Japan on September 2, 1945, rather than negotiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditi… archives.gov/milestone-docu… nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/end…
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Wealth inequality, and unlimited money in politics, are destroying our country.
That some do not see how the rapid acceleration of wealth inequality is tearing this country apart is a misreading of history. Read about the Gilded Age or the causes of revolution. I am for Team America. If America has been good to you, you need to do good for America.
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I love this Pope.
Jun 13
NEW: Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire on Friday. Pope Leo XIV isn’t celebrating.
In his first interview, the pope asked what the milestone would reveal: “If that is the only thing that has value anymore, then we're in big trouble.”
Days before the SpaceX IPO, he lambasted “the idolatry of profit” in a Barcelona stadium. thelettersfromleo.com/p/elon…
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🏠 A new CNBC survey shows most Americans think the American Dream is out of reach.
Not because people stopped working hard, but because hard work is no longer enough.
That's not a personal failure. It's a sign that something is wrong with our economy. cnbc.com/2026/06/09/american…
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Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
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Jun 13
Against all the evidence, the United Arab Emirates still pretends that it isn't sending arms and mercenaries to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan as they commit genocide. trib.al/i2SeANf
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Jun 12
It is a threat to democracy for one man to have so much wealth. He has essentially unlimited funds to back any candidate or issue that appeals to his parochial interests. trib.al/41B7LCM
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.@mcuban have you seen @ericschmidt booed by young graduates preaching how AI will solve all? I am not an AI doomer or accelerationist. I am an AI democratist. But AI is not a panacea for our economic divides.
Our elite class is totally out of touch.
Young folks see an unfair and lopsided economy where money lenders & speculators are obscenely wealthy while they can't afford a house or education.
We are in a new Gilded Age.
We need a home guarantee for young Americans by 35 if they work for 7 years.
A jobs program for them after school.
Childcare at $10 day.
Medicare for All so healthcare isn't tied to your work.
Free trade schools and public college.
An industrial investment bank financing small and medium size manufacturers that make things we currently import.
Tech institutes that prepare Americans to use AI in a small business, government agency, or factory floor.
An end to data center extraction taking a community's water and jacking up their bills, sucking all the money in the hands of a few tech billionaires.
A tax on agentic AI more than human workers.
A tax on billionaires and, yes, trillionaires.
An end to foreign wars.
An end to aid to nations that commit genocide.
I call it a Team America agenda.
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So 2024.
What both parties miss is that AI can be a great government vs business equalizer.
If government hires people willing and able to learn how to use the same AI available to everyone, from any number of domestic model makers, it has the opportunity to serve Americans, adequately at worst, more productively and effectively , if done well and transparently
The more efficient government is, the harder companies have to work to outperform it.
That makes for more opportunity.
What both parties have to realize is that the problem that will accelerate in this new world is crony capitalism. Both parties excel at giving our taxpayer money to their friends. Like all new technologies, AI will create new pockets of wealth that will try to buy our politicians. From both parties.
The more transparency we require in government, the more we respect the right of the people to challenge that largesse, the more we restrict the ability of politicians to receive dark money , and reward their friends, the better the quality of life will be across the country.
Whether you like it or not, AI has changed everything, except , our government , our politics and our politicians. Which have not changed at all.
So here we are. Talking about parties and politicians that are thinking in the past. Like it’s still 2024.
That’s a problem for all of us.
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A damning chart: The US cuts off food aid to majority Muslim countries.
Jun 13
Look what I found: After USAID's Food for Peace program was moved to the USDA last year, Food for Peace seems to have stripped food aid from all Muslim-majority countries.
To this amazing chart from @CFR_org, I added a column showing the % of the population that is Muslim:
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DealBook: Should we tax A.I.?
Nice summary of the main ideas being floated. This debate is only beginning. messaging-custom-newsletters…
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Really good @eshugerman piece
Have heard some of these anecdotes along the way. All true!
sfstandard.com/2026/06/13/bi…
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Jun 12
This is revolting: The Trump administration is preparing to deport brave women fleeing Iranian repression to Central African Republic, an impoverished country in the middle of a civil war. nytimes.com/2026/06/11/world…
Jun 11
It's hard to fathom how deeply evil this is, and that we have people running our country who get sick pleasure from sending women fleeing violence in Iran to an African country in the middle of a brutal civil war.
nytimes.com/2026/06/11/world…
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Jun 11
The European Union is opening talks with the Taliban -- risking legitimizing their repressive rule -- not to talk about ending its gender apartheid but to persuade them to accept return of failed asylums seekers despite the risk of torture and detention. trib.al/T9aiq8f
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The Trump administration is going to deport over two dozen people today, without due process — including 2 Iranian women who came to the U.S. as refugees — to the Central African Republic, a country that the U.S. Government officially recommends against traveling to.
It’s unconscionable. The flight should not proceed.
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Jun 10
The European Commission has invited a Taliban delegation for a meeting on migration talks in the upcoming weeks.
This invitation sends the wrong message at the wrong time, says @FereshtaAbbasi. Learn more ⤵️
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Jun 10
Staffers Drafting Federal AI Bill Took Industry-Funded Trip to Visit Tech Giants Pushing to Block State Rules readsludge.com/2026/06/10/st…
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Jun 9
“There are no deals yet, and it's possible there never will be. If they do happen, though, it likely means less regulation, not more.” axios.com/newsletters/axios-…
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Jun 8
An excellent resource.
“I’m launching Tech Influence Watch as AI follows crypto into politics.” citationneeded.news/tech-inf…
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Jun 2
Blood on the Basketball: The NBA Must End Its Deal With the UAE as the Sudan Genocide Worsens open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/…
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Jun 2
Those who forget the past are condemned to relive it.
wsj.com/opinion/the-hallucin… via @WSJopinion
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