AI Industry Uses Cryptocurrency Model to Influence 2026 Midterms
One week after Donald Trump secured a return to the Oval Office, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, co-founders of the venture capital firm a16z, recorded a podcast episode gloating about the 2024 presidential and congressional election results. Andreessen, who has a couple billion dollars to his name, marked the moment as feeling “like a boot off the throat.” No longer would he, his business partner, or the rest of the cryptocurrency world face “repression” at the hands of a Biden regime intent on enforcing securities law. Horowitz matched Andreessen’s excitement. “Hallelujah,” he said.
Just 11 months prior, the pair embarked on a mission to aggressively pursue political power, corralling crypto industry bedfellows…
