On Friday, the enterprise agency Andreessen Horowitz tweeted out a link to its information on tips on how to “construct your social media presence” which options recommendation for founders on issues like “tips on how to discover your folks” and “how usually to put up.”
The timing of the tweet was ironic given the social media frenzy on Friday after founder Ben Horowitz posted on X. He was upset over an article in The San Francisco Normal concerning the couple’s political donations and accused his rival, VC Michael Moritz — who owns The Normal — of orchestrating the story. Horowitz mentioned the piece was an “assault on” his spouse. (The Normal’s government editor, Jon Steinberg, mentioned he assigned the article and that Moritz had nothing to do with it.)
A16z’s Marc Andreessen has additionally had a storied, and generally combative, relationship with social media. A Fb board member, he quit Twitter in 2016 as a result of it had grown too poisonous for him however returned and shortly rebuilt an enormous following by tweeting all through every day. Earlier this 12 months, he and VC Vinod Khosla fought on X about AI.
