{"id":652482,"date":"2025-02-06T18:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a16z-stands-by-decision-to-hire-daniel-penny\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T18:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:05:15","slug":"a16z-stands-by-decision-to-hire-daniel-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a16z-stands-by-decision-to-hire-daniel-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"#a16z stands by decision to hire Daniel Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andreessen Horowitz is defending its decision to hire Daniel Penny, according to an investor memo seen by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/05\/technology\/daniel-penny-andreessen-horowitz-investors.html\">The New York Times<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The venture capital firm caused a stir earlier this week after it announced it would hire Penny, who was acquitted last year of choking a homeless man to death in the New York City subway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Penny, a former marine, has no investment experience. The firm said he would work on its American Dynamism team, which focuses on government and defense. The firm also said it would teach him how to invest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the memo seen by The New York Times, the firm said it spends \u201ca lot of time with active-duty military, veterans, chiefs of police, sheriffs,\u201d and that those relationships are \u201ccritical to the success of our companies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The memo continued, \u201cWe believe there is long-term value in expanding our network in collaboration with Daniel and are excited to have him as part of our team.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/category\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/06\/a16z-stands-by-decision-to-hire-daniel-penny\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andreessen Horowitz is defending its decision to hire Daniel Penny, according to an investor memo seen by The New York Times.\u00a0 The venture capital firm caused a stir earlier this week after it announced it would hire Penny, who was acquitted last year of choking a homeless man to death in the New York City&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2188475237.jpg?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[151533,154184,151537,151477],"class_list":["post-652482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-a16z","tag-daniel-penny","tag-government-policy","tag-venture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}