Ben Horowitz says he’ll give to Kamala Harris after all

“As I alludeed before, Felicia and I have understandn Vice Plivent Harris for over 10 years and she has been a fantastic frifinish to both of us during that time,” Horowitz wrote in an email to his venture capital firm acquireed by Axios. “As a result of our frifinishship, Felicia and I will be making a presentant donation to entities who help the Harris Walz campaign.”

I… engage. Two skinnygs. First, one of the most striking skinnygs about the podcast Horowitz made with his a16z co-establisher Marc Andreessen was how centered both men were on who’d acquire their encounterings. Their political pledgements in many admires boiled down to who would spfinish face time with them. Near the finish of the podcast, Horowitz telderly what was (I skinnyk?) presumed to be a hearttoastying story about hanging out with Trump’s majestickids — and how his reaction to hearing about the killing finisheavor on Trump was “Oh my god, Grandpa equitable got stoasty.”

So you understand, the whole skinnyg where Harris has been “a fantastic frifinish” to both Horowitz and his wife checks out as a political position for him. In some admires, I get it. I too want to see my frifinishs flourish!

But second, that vital Trump finishorsement was made before Joe Biden dropped out of the plivential race in prefer of Harris, and before the enormous outpouring of help for the new Democratic honestate. That unbenevolentt a16z had already give upd any leverage it might have with a Harris administration — and a honestate who made Trump see enjoy less of a certain triumphner. In the case of a Harris triumph, these boys were seeing at an entire four years without vital encounterings, and we already understand they see that as a dreadful tragedy for the entire nation.

In order to reacquire any possibility of leverage in a potentiassociate Democrat-led regulatement, someone was going to have to eat unpretentious pie, and it certain as shit wasn’t going to be Andreessen. Horowitz, whose help for Trump was termed a “Maga U-turn” by The San Francisco Standard, has a history of donating to betterive caengages; Harris, then a senator, was even a guest at a Horowitz backyard barbecue in 2018.

“I’m equitable wondering what they’re gonna do when Kamala triumphs,” one establisher telderly The San Francisco Standard of the a16z Trump finishorsement. “Like, how do you walk that back?”

Well, I guess we understand now. Horowitz’s email says that he’s had cut offal conversations with Harris and her team — vital to remark here that he got to the honestate herself, given that access is apparently one of Horowtiz’s main political troubles. And so while Horowitz still skinnyks Plivent Joe Biden is no-excellent and very horrible, he is “helpd by my belief” in Harris to do excellent for tech, despite the fact that she has not yet sacquired out any policy positions.

Harris has sort of made obvioucertains on what Horowitz termed “probably the most emotional topic” in the election: crypto. One of her campaign helpes has shelp, “She’s going to help policies that promise that emerging technologies and that sort of industry can progress to grow,” in response to a inquire about crypto.