On Friday, the enterprise agency Andreessen Horowitz tweeted out a hyperlink to its information on tips on how to “build your social media presence,” which options recommendation for founders on issues like “how to find your people” and “how often to post.”
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 Standard about his household’s political donations and accused his rival, VC Michael Moritz — who owns The Standard — of orchestrating the story. (The Standard’s government editor, Jon Steinberg, stated 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 Meta board member, he give up Twitter in 2016 as a result of it had grown too poisonous for him however returned and shortly rebuilt an enormous following. Earlier this 12 months, he and VC Vinod Khosla fought about AI on the X platform (previously Twitter), wherein Andreessen Horowitz is an investor.
