Anika Begay
On Friday, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz tweeted a link to his guide on “building your social media presence,” which contains advice for founders on things like “how to find your people” and “how often to post.”
The timing of the tweet was ironic, given the social media frenzy Friday after founder Ben Horowitz posted about X. He was upset about a story in The San Francisco Standard about his family’s political donations and accused his rival, VC Michael Moritz, who owns The Standard, of orchestrating the story. (The Standard’s executive editor, Jon Steinberg, said he had assigned the story and that Moritz had nothing to do with it.)
Marc Andreessen of A16z has also had a long, and sometimes contentious, relationship with social media. A board member of Meta, he left Twitter in 2016 because it had become too toxic for him, but returned and quickly rebuilt a massive following. Earlier this year, he and VC Vinod Khosla fell out over AI at Platform X (formerly Twitter), in which Andreessen Horowitz is an investor.
