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Erik Torenberg

@eriktorenberg
14 posts
2026-01-10
@packyM I'm biased but I think this is your best company profile, and IMO the best one about a16z in its history.
2026-01-10 View on X
Forbes

a16z captured 18%+ of all venture capital allocated in the US in 2025 and now manages $90B in assets, vs. Sequoia Capital's $56B and General Catalyst's $43B

Andreessen Horowitz has raised $15 billion for five new growth and venture funds in one of the largest-ever raises for a venture capital fund.

@packyM I'm biased but I think this is your best company profile, and IMO the best one about a16z in its history.
2026-01-10 View on X
Not Boring

A deep dive into a16z, which has stakes in 10 of the top 15 private companies by valuation and whose Funds 1-4 totaled $853B in enterprise value at distribution

Packy McCormick /Not Boring:

@packyM I'm biased but I think this is your best company profile, and IMO the best one about a16z in its history.
2026-01-10 View on X
Axios

a16z raises $15B+ across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund, the largest sum, and $3B for unspecified “other venture strategies”

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose past investments included Airbnb and Coinbase, on Friday announced …

2026-01-09
@packyM I'm biased but I think this is your best company profile, and IMO the best one about a16z in its history.
2026-01-09 View on X
Axios

a16z raises $15B+ across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund, the largest sum, and $3B for unspecified “other venture strategies”

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose past investments included Airbnb and Coinbase, on Friday announced that it raised over $15 billion for a group of new funds.

@packyM I'm biased but I think this is your best company profile, and IMO the best one about a16z in its history.
2026-01-09 View on X
Not Boring

A deep dive into a16z, which has stakes in 10 of the top 15 private companies by valuation and whose Funds 1-4 totaled $853B in enterprise value at distribution

Packy McCormick /Not Boring:

2025-12-01
@pmarca @DavidSacks They can only imagine the negatives of (perceived) conflict of interest, but not the benefits of skin in the game.
2025-12-01 View on X
New York Times

How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts

Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends si...

@pmarca @DavidSacks They can only imagine the negatives of (perceived) conflict of interest, but not the benefits of skin in the game.
2025-12-01 View on X
Axios

The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes

Top of the Morning  —  I come here neither to praise nor pillory David Sacks, the venture capitalist who spends half …

2024-04-07
RIP Mahbod Moghadam. The world just lost a creative genius—both in his entrepreneurship and in his sense of humor. I'm sad to see such a special person gone too soon. Rap Genius inspired me to get into tech, Everipedia reminded me to think bigger, and his comedy helped me...
2024-04-07 View on X
TechCrunch

Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, passed away in March at age 41, according to a post on Genius attributed to his family

Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, as well as an angel investor …

2023-11-21
Why is the OpenAI board not saying anything? Nearly all of Silicon Valley is defending the other side, and barely anyone one is speaking up for the individual board members because it's hard to defend someone who won't defend themselves. When no one hears from you, everyone... [image]
2023-11-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Ilya Sutskever and over 700 out of ~770 OpenAI staffers sign a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman unless the board resigns and reinstates Altman

- Majority of OpenAI employees sign letter seeking new board  — Board member Ilya Sutskever is among the signatories

2023-10-17
Some tech people have yet to realize how much of tech is Jewish
2023-10-17 View on X
Telegraph

Israel plans to boycott Europe's biggest tech conference, Web Summit, after the event's co-founder accused Israel of war crimes, as many tech companies pull out

given all the tweets @paddycosgrave has been liking over the last few days. I saved several of them on the attached google doc (so we have a record when the @WebSummit PR team asks...

2022-05-06
Sad day at On Deck. If you're looking for smart, passionate, outcome-driven team players, I'd love to introduce you to some great people—DM me. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-06 View on X
TechCrunch

Sources: On Deck, which connects founders with capital and advice, laid off 25% of its staff, or ~72 people, after raising ~$40M of a planned $100M-$150M fund

DM me. https://twitter.com/... @sarthakgh : Personal news I was one of the people let go. Startup life is tough! Most journeys are not up and to the right My most recent role was w...

2021-02-28
They came for Snap and I did nothing. They came for Clubhouse and I did nothing. Now they've come for https://raptfm.com/ and I suffer for my silence. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-28 View on X
TechCrunch

Facebook's NPE division launches BARS, a TikTok-like app for rappers to create and share their raps using professionally created beats, in closed beta

Easily create and share raps  —  iPhone Screenshots Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Facebook's new app Bars will let you rap over premade beats Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : F...

2021-02-27
They came for Snap and I did nothing. They came for Clubhouse and I did nothing. Now they've come for https://raptfm.com/ and I suffer for my silence. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-27 View on X
TechCrunch

Facebook's NPE division launches BARS, a TikTok-like app for rappers to create and share their raps using professionally created beats, in closed beta

Facebook's internal R&D group, NPE Team, is today launching its next experimental app, called BARS.  The app makes it possible for rappers …

2018-01-08
“BTC = reserve currency for people that hate the fed; ETH = reserve currency for people that hate the SEC; XMR = reserve currency for people that hate big brother; ” - @twobitidiot https://medium.com/...
2018-01-08 View on X
TwoBitIdiot

Thoughts on cryptocurrencies for 2018, including prices and investing, people involved, taxes, ICOs and crypto funds, promising applications, and more

@twobitidiot https://medium.com/... Erik Torenberg / @eriktorenberg : “BTC = reserve currency for people that hate the fed; ETH = reserve currency for people that hate the SEC; XMR...