I hear Kyle Rittenhouse is also coming on board as a junior associate.
Daniel Penny Gets Hired by Andreessen Horowitz
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
People get hired for nepotism, for politics, for street smarts, for their smile, for the crease in their trousers, because the guy hiring them had a good morning, or because they're actually good at what they do. You've called this one out as bad. Well, it probably is bad. if I invested through this company I'd be upset. But the thing is, its "hunt for keys under lampost, not because I lost them there, but because it…
A bad hire that creates a lot of PR is a bad PR move, as opposed to all of the other bad hires, but maybe a VC fund doesn't need PR.
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#23Penny was rightly acquitted. https://nypost.com/2024/11/08/opinion/subway-rider-thanked-d... Subway rider thanked Daniel Penny for saving riders from Jordan Neely — possibly the most important gesture of his life
Judge, jury and executioner? Acquittal.... okay but acting like Judge Dredd merits a job offer? That is sick.
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#24> “He will learn the business of investing and he will work to support our portfolio companies,” wrote Ulevitch in a note sent to all employees this afternoon. By their own admission he isn’t qualified for the job. He’s been hired because of who he is rather than the skills he brings. …wait, I thought A16Z didn’t like that stuff! Is Penny a DEI hire? (in case you were wondering, yes, this thread got flagged to death)
Athlete and celebrity in VC or PE are hired because of the money they can attract from others, which is a type qualification, probably the same reason here.
Lol and diversity of people has always been proven to produce better ideas and companies. The attempts to justify tying yourselves into knots!
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#25Penny was rightly acquitted. https://nypost.com/2024/11/08/opinion/subway-rider-thanked-d... Subway rider thanked Daniel Penny for saving riders from Jordan Neely — possibly the most important gesture of his life
What investment criteria does he have? DEI HIRE! It was the right the whole time. Once again telling on themselves.
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#26He wasn't in law enforcement, or a statutory role. He's a former marine. I think this is a non-story. I don't like A16Z but this specific hire has nothing to do with it, and I see no causal trend here or reason to say anything about Andreessen from this hire. I had an uncle who was a lower court Judge in the UK, who would hire ex-cons to work on his pigfarm. Cynics would say he wanted a cheap source of labour but the…
So…DEI.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the man had experience in investing, then maybe you'd have an argument. As it stands you couldn't tell him from Adam when it comes to investment experience so the only plausible explanation for hiring him is that its political and thus says something about Andreeseen
People get hired for nepotism, for politics, for street smarts, for their smile, for the crease in their trousers, because the guy hiring them had a good morning, or because they're actually good at what they do. You've called this one out as bad. Well, it probably is bad. if I invested through this company I'd be upset. But the thing is, its "hunt for keys under lampost, not because I lost them there, but because it…
Should be illegal. Maybe it is. Trump banned DEI.
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#28I feel ashamed to work at a startup, reading this. Thankfully I've seen how dysfunctional A16Z is up-close and don't have much hope for their future competence.
They are doing whatever they can for attention because all of their investments and “blockchain” nonsense have been poor showing the company just got lucky and is run by idiots.
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#29A MAGA DEI hire
Re: Daniel Penny Gets Hired by Andreessen Horowitz
#30> “He will learn the business of investing and he will work to support our portfolio companies,” wrote Ulevitch in a note sent to all employees this afternoon. By their own admission he isn’t qualified for the job. He’s been hired because of who he is rather than the skills he brings. …wait, I thought A16Z didn’t like that stuff! Is Penny a DEI hire? (in case you were wondering, yes, this thread got flagged to death)
Maybe the job is actually really easy?
Perhaps we could hand the job of "owning money" over to AI?