Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring of Daniel Penny to Its Investors

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/technology/daniel-penny-andreessen-horowitz-investors.html

by jrflowers • 1 year ago

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mikeyouse3• 1 year ago

I miss the days when everyone wasn't trying to be edgy. It's just so exhausting.

tipiirai3• 1 year ago

What do you mean? I don’t know the backstory here. And the article is paywalled

wslh• 1 year ago

https://archive.is/aXptw

BugsJustFindMe5• 1 year ago

What are you calling edgy here? The author? The topic? The VC firm? The HN submitter? NYT readers?

What you've done here is called "vaguebooking", defined as the act of posting intentionally unclear messages on social media to get attention or sympathy. It's...very edgy, and indeed exhausting.

mikeyouse3• 1 year ago

Clearly the VC firm who hired and then issued a press release about hiring the utterly unqualified Penny to their "American Dynamism" team.

fullshark• 1 year ago

How else do you get attention? Quiet competence doesn’t work.

Gud• 1 year ago

No, but opinionated competence does, if you’re in the right environment. If you’re not, I guess doing the bare minimum and STFU kinda works?

tipiirai3• 1 year ago

I miss times when tech investors focused on tech, and not in politics

BugsJustFindMe5• 1 year ago

Everything intersects politics, including both tech and investing. Choosing to ignore politics is also politics.

tipiirai3• 1 year ago

Sure, but I certainly miss the days when they chose to ignore politics. Especially military stuff like Andreessen!

rabbits77• 1 year ago

https://archive.is/aXptw

Hizonner• 1 year ago

"It's critically important that we maintain a diverse team that's inclusive of scumbags. Many of our partners are scumbags, and we must have staff who can relate to them."

Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring of Daniel Penny to Its Investors

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