Really really cannot overemphasize how much of the venture backed silicon valley "AI" companies are religions
November 23, 2023 at 1:47 AM
Really really cannot overemphasize how much of the venture backed silicon valley "AI" companies are religions
"The bike business has survived world wars, depressions, and the automobile. It will survive venture capital too." #bikeshoplife velomedia.io/rad-power-ba...
Rad Power Bankrupt: More Proof That High-Growth Venture Capital and Cycling Don't Mesh
The cycling industry has now watched multiple VC-backed companies flame out spectacularly. The pattern is consistent enough to be a lesson. High-growth venture models and cycling don't mesh—and the e-...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"The bike business has survived world wars, depressions, and the automobile. It will survive venture capital too." #bikeshoplife velomedia.io/rad-power-ba...
Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that the bigger obstacle is access, and that Claude solves it.
SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required | TechCrunch
Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that the bigger obstacle is access, and that Claude solves it.
techcrunch.com
May 18, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that the bigger obstacle is access, and that Claude solves it.
I’m not an apologist for Big AI; burn them down & salt the earth. But a bunch of algorithms aren’t the problem — they have their uses. (Far narrower than are being asserted, obviously.) The issue is venture-backed companies run by fascists, as always. Facebook enabled a genocide without needing AI.
December 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I’m not an apologist for Big AI; burn them down & salt the earth. But a bunch of algorithms aren’t the problem — they have their uses. (Far narrower than are being asserted, obviously.) The issue is venture-backed companies run by fascists, as always. Facebook enabled a genocide without needing AI.
75 percent of venture-backed companies never return cash to investors, but sure, let's replace the entire US government with those dudes' ideas.
February 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
75 percent of venture-backed companies never return cash to investors, but sure, let's replace the entire US government with those dudes' ideas.
Anduril has one of its own as a DOGE insider working for Musk while Anduril is vying for billions in DoD contracts
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February 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Anduril has one of its own as a DOGE insider working for Musk while Anduril is vying for billions in DoD contracts
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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The program will let AI review seniors’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward companies when they deny it.
Venture Capital-Backed Tech Companies Will Pilot Medicare’s New AI Experiment
The program will let AI review seniors’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward companies when they deny it.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The program will let AI review seniors’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward companies when they deny it.
Example of one of the companies and tech being shown off today in the exhibitor hall includes Palmer Luckey’s venture Capital-backed Anduril Industries, which touts its surveillance systems along the U.S-Mexico border and “killer autonomous drones.”
April 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Example of one of the companies and tech being shown off today in the exhibitor hall includes Palmer Luckey’s venture Capital-backed Anduril Industries, which touts its surveillance systems along the U.S-Mexico border and “killer autonomous drones.”
Since Trump took office, virtually all CFPB investigations have ground to a halt, including three probes into Andreessen-backed companies, according to the records and the people familiar with the cases. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startup...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Since Trump took office, virtually all CFPB investigations have ground to a halt, including three probes into Andreessen-backed companies, according to the records and the people familiar with the cases. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Three CFPB probes into companies backed by billionaire Marc Andreessen have been halted as bureau investigations have ground to a halt, including inquiries into the popular cash advance app EarnIn and Point Digital Finance, a provider of so-called alternative mortgages.
Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startup...
www.propublica.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Three CFPB probes into companies backed by billionaire Marc Andreessen have been halted as bureau investigations have ground to a halt, including inquiries into the popular cash advance app EarnIn and Point Digital Finance, a provider of so-called alternative mortgages.
Insight: Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies reut.rs/4iee4EJ
Insight: Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies
President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture offering artificial-intelligence models developed by Chinese companies the U.S. administration has flagged for national security concerns.
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August 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Insight: Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies reut.rs/4iee4EJ
OpenAI’s startup empire: The companies backed by its venture fund
OpenAI’s startup empire: The companies backed by its venture fund
Since its founding in 2021, OpenAI Startup Fund has invested in over a dozen startups, including many of the hottest startups in AI.
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March 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
OpenAI’s startup empire: The companies backed by its venture fund
OpenAI and Anthropic are not real companies — they are freeloaders living on venture-backed welfare for an indeterminate amount of time because the entire tech industry has agreed to rally around the world’s most unprofitable software. It's a disgrace.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
OpenAI and Anthropic are not real companies — they are freeloaders living on venture-backed welfare for an indeterminate amount of time because the entire tech industry has agreed to rally around the world’s most unprofitable software. It's a disgrace.
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies. - www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies
President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture offering artificial-intelligence models developed by Chinese companies the U.S. administration has...
www.reuters.com
August 17, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies. - www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Andreessen *and* Horowitz have advocated for a decade that companies should burn capital to dominate markets backed by venture capital welfare. Andreessen founded a financial cult where growth was god, and startups funding goes to late stage companies.
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December 18, 2023 at 8:09 PM
Andreessen *and* Horowitz have advocated for a decade that companies should burn capital to dominate markets backed by venture capital welfare. Andreessen founded a financial cult where growth was god, and startups funding goes to late stage companies.
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The main point of Musk's DOGE was acquiring no-bid government contracts where they could be found. A senior Trump adviser oversaw the awarding of one government contract and pushed for another to two tech companies backed by a venture-capital firm in which he was an investor...
Exclusive | DOGE Official Discussed Contracts for Companies Backed by Firm He Invested In
Disclosure documents show Josh Gruenbaum was an investor in a Thrive Capital fund while the firm’s portfolio companies were up for contracts.
www.wsj.com
May 30, 2026 at 8:54 PM
The main point of Musk's DOGE was acquiring no-bid government contracts where they could be found. A senior Trump adviser oversaw the awarding of one government contract and pushed for another to two tech companies backed by a venture-capital firm in which he was an investor...
WSJ: "Pentagon officials are reviewing an outside proposal to build a defense system using technology from Anduril, Palantir and Elon Musk’s SpaceX"
These are all Trump donors. It's corrupt all the way through.
These are all Trump donors. It's corrupt all the way through.
Military-Tech Startups Vie for Billions as Hegseth Shakes Up Pentagon Spending
Venture-backed companies see an opening to take business from traditional defense contractors.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
WSJ: "Pentagon officials are reviewing an outside proposal to build a defense system using technology from Anduril, Palantir and Elon Musk’s SpaceX"
These are all Trump donors. It's corrupt all the way through.
These are all Trump donors. It's corrupt all the way through.
It was a simple deal: you pay $500 mn into Trump companies, and we'll give you proprietary American AI tech worth many billions. www.ft.com/content/188b...
Abu Dhabi royal bought big stake in Trump family crypto venture
Investors backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan put half a billion dollars into World Liberty Financial
www.ft.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
It was a simple deal: you pay $500 mn into Trump companies, and we'll give you proprietary American AI tech worth many billions. www.ft.com/content/188b...
U.S. President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture offering AI models developed by Chinese companies his administration has flagged for national security concerns.
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies
Experts say the business collaboration runs counter to the Trump administration’s stance toward Chinese tech companies.
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August 18, 2026 at 4:27 AM
U.S. President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture offering AI models developed by Chinese companies his administration has flagged for national security concerns.
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies | Reuters www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies
President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture offering artificial-intelligence models developed by Chinese companies the U.S. administration has...
www.reuters.com
August 17, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies | Reuters www.reuters.com/world/china/...
O good the burrito taxi debate is back again. Or as I like to describe it "Supporting venture capital backed companies but from the left because learning to cook is a liberal conspiracy to get me to grow up."
January 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
O good the burrito taxi debate is back again. Or as I like to describe it "Supporting venture capital backed companies but from the left because learning to cook is a liberal conspiracy to get me to grow up."
Elon Musk wants the government to kill the consumer watchdog agency that shut down a company backed by his friend's VC firm www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @tonyromm.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Elon Musk wants the government to kill the consumer watchdog agency that shut down a company backed by his friend's VC firm www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @tonyromm.bsky.social
Lets review the chronology. Marc Andressen, an investor in fin tech and big Trump supporter, complains that CFPB is undermining his businesses. Musk, says "Delete CFPB." This isn't about efficiency. Its about enabling ppl like Musk and Andressen to make money by ripping off customers.
November 27, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Lets review the chronology. Marc Andressen, an investor in fin tech and big Trump supporter, complains that CFPB is undermining his businesses. Musk, says "Delete CFPB." This isn't about efficiency. Its about enabling ppl like Musk and Andressen to make money by ripping off customers.
Capitalists using bankruptcy laws to evade debt, then relaunch their companies. "In 2024, a record 110 [venture capital] & [private equity]-backed companies filed for bankruptcy, according to data from S&P Global, marking a 205.5% increase since 2022...” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How venture capital benefits from zombie bankruptcies
Inside the rise and fall of Foxtrot, a popular convenience chain that liquidated—and then reopened a near carbon copy of itself.
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June 6, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Capitalists using bankruptcy laws to evade debt, then relaunch their companies. "In 2024, a record 110 [venture capital] & [private equity]-backed companies filed for bankruptcy, according to data from S&P Global, marking a 205.5% increase since 2022...” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
OpenAI estimated that its Cursor partnership was worth more than $1 billion a year in revenue and cut it off anyway. The revenue concentration risk for these companies is massive, and AI labs are clearly dependent on venture backed AI startups for large chunks of revenue.
archive.ph/8R4zP
archive.ph/8R4zP
September 3, 2026 at 7:39 PM
OpenAI estimated that its Cursor partnership was worth more than $1 billion a year in revenue and cut it off anyway. The revenue concentration risk for these companies is massive, and AI labs are clearly dependent on venture backed AI startups for large chunks of revenue.
archive.ph/8R4zP
archive.ph/8R4zP