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Chuck Darwin<p>2021:<br>Five years after mocking India's colonial past, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marc</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreesen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Andreesen</span></a>, one of Silicon Valley’s foremost venture capitalists and a member of Facebook’s board, now wants to make money off India’s fancy for cryptos.</p><p>Andreesen’s venture, <a href="https://c.im/tags/a16z" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>a16z</span></a> [founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz], along with Coinbase Ventures, has invested $260 million in Series C round of CoinSwitch Kuber, the four-year-old Indian start-up which is an aggregator of crypto exchanges. </p><p>Existing investors Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global have also participated in the round. </p><p>Following the massive fund infusion, CoinSwitch has become the country’s second crypto Unicorn, valued at $1.9 billion, after CoinDCX hit $1.1 billion after a $90 million Series C round in August.</p><p><a href="https://www.fortuneindia.com/opinion/hi-pmarca-welcome-to-colonial-free-india/105990" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fortuneindia.com/opinion/hi-pm</span><span class="invisible">arca-welcome-to-colonial-free-india/105990</span></a></p>
Adam Dalliance<p>Watched some of Andreessen on Rogan's show for my sins, and the lack of self awareness is deafening.</p><p>They're all like "woohoo, Trump won, we are saved from Woke and regulation and now everything will be great"</p><p>And then moments later "God, imagine all those people in Germany when Hitler was elected, do you think they knew what was to come, do you think they celebrated? They must have been so dumb"</p><p>🤦 </p><p>I wonder at what point they will realize, or if they'll still be celebrating even as the camps get filled with unpeople and the body counts starts to ratchet up.</p><p><a href="https://boing.world/tags/rogan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rogan</span></a> <a href="https://boing.world/tags/andreesen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>andreesen</span></a> <a href="https://boing.world/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Over the years, <a href="https://c.im/tags/a16z" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>a16z</span></a> has invested in several well-known companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Lyft, and Slack, among many others. </p><p>The firm’s founders <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marc</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreesen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Andreesen</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ben</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Horowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Horowitz</span></a> have recently said that they are supporting <a href="https://c.im/tags/Donald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Donald</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> in the upcoming presidential elections.&nbsp;</p><p>So it comes as little surprise that they stiff the cybersecurity researcher <br>( <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/xyz3va" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>xyz3va</span></a></span> ) that saved their bacon</p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/18/researcher-finds-flaw-in-a16z-website-that-exposed-some-company-data/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2024/07/18/rese</span><span class="invisible">archer-finds-flaw-in-a16z-website-that-exposed-some-company-data/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>My previous post introduced <a href="https://c.im/tags/Balaji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Balaji</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Srinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Srinivasan</span></a> (let's call him B.S. for short), </p><p>the main brain behind the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Network</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> cult of tech billionaires trying to reinvent government and media.</p><p>B.S., a former partner at <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreesen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Andreesen</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Horowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Horowitz</span></a> and former chief technology officer of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coinbase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coinbase</span></a>, wrote an entire book called<br> "The Network State: How to Start a New Country." </p><p>Tech oligarchs like Marc Andreesen hold him in high regard and consider him some kind of genius oracle. </p><p>His book outlines how tech billionaires can seize more economic and political power by establishing new sovereign territories under their control.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Garry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Garry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tan</span></a>, the CEO of <a href="https://c.im/tags/YCombinator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YCombinator</span></a> currently leading a campaign to take control of San Francisco Hall, <br>has cast his efforts as part of B.S.'s Network State movement. </p><p>He did this during a conversation with B.S. at the first ever Network State <a href="https://c.im/tags/conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conference</span></a> last October. </p><p>Two years earlier, Tan wrote on Twitter that Y Combinator was a "prototype" for the Network State idea.</p><p>So what would it mean for San Francisco to be taken over by tech <a href="https://c.im/tags/zillionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zillionaires</span></a> who belong to the Network State cult? </p><p>Well, B.S. is the kind of guy who likes to run his mouth on four-hour-long podcasts hosted by sycophantic fanboys. </p><p>And he has a LOT to say about what the Network State will mean for S.F.</p><p>Buckle up!</p><p><a href="https://www.parallelmirror.com/balaji-srinivasans-gray-vision-for-san-francisco/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">parallelmirror.com/balaji-srin</span><span class="invisible">ivasans-gray-vision-for-san-francisco/</span></a></p>