Tech at all costs
Influential VC firm Andreessen Horowitz says it will back any politician who supports an “optimistic technology-enabled future” — and oppose those who don’t.
Marc Andreessen long ago proclaimed software would eat the world. Now it may eat politics too.
Ben Horowitz, his co-founder at Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z), which is arguably one of the most influential VC firms in the world, just declared in a blog post that “we will, for the first time, get involved with politics by supporting candidates who align with our vision and values for technology”.
“We are non-partisan, one issue voters: If a candidate supports an optimistic technology-enabled future, we are for them. If they want to choke off important technologies, we are against them," he says.
The post calls out artificial intelligence, decentralised technologies and biological research as areas they want to see supported by the government. On their terms.
