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Marc Andreessen

b. 1971

The venture capitalist who wrote the tech right's manifesto and walked into the war room.

Marc Andreessen — Netscape founder, co-founder of the venture firm a16z — is the ideologue of the tech right: author of a 'techno-optimist' manifesto that reads as a political program, a financier whose money reaches into Israeli surveillance startups, and an investor who embedded himself directly in the Trump transition to help staff and steer the incoming government.

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  1. He embedded himself in the Trump transition to help staff and steer the incoming government.

    FACT

    An investor in the war room — Andreessen moved from funding the campaign to shaping personnel and policy from the inside, private capital placed at the controls of the state.

  2. His network published its governing program in the open.

    FACT

    The tech-right plan — from deregulation to its posture toward the administrative state — is not a conspiracy theory; it was written down and published.

  3. He is part of the big money fighting for control of the government.

    FACT

    Record political spending by a small circle of tech billionaires, Andreessen among them, converted into direct influence over how the country is run.

  4. His firm's money flows into the Israeli surveillance-tech pipeline.

    FACT

    a16z backed Toka, an Israeli firm that sells governments covert access to phones, computers, and IoT devices — venture capital underwriting the surveillance state.

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