{"id":744695,"date":"2026-08-21T20:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-is-the-doj-investigating-andreessen-horowitzs-board-seats\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T20:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:45:23","slug":"why-is-the-doj-investigating-andreessen-horowitzs-board-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-is-the-doj-investigating-andreessen-horowitzs-board-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the DOJ investigating Andreessen Horowitz\u2019s board seats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now\u00a0compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at\u00a0Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except\u00a0the Department of\u00a0Justice\u00a0has\u00a0reportedly\u00a0been investigating the arrangement\u00a0for\u00a0almost\u00a0a\u00a0year, dusting\u00a0off a 112-year-old antitrust\u00a0law\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0rarely used against VCs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Board conflicts\u00a0aren\u2019t\u00a0exactly new, and these companies\u00a0weren\u2019t\u00a0necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested in them. But as portfolio companies expand into each other\u2019s markets, the DOJ\u2019s scrutiny raises a much bigger question for venture firms: How do you manage board seats when the boundaries between your portfolio companies keep moving?\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>On this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s\u00a0Equity\u00a0podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O\u2019Kane dig into the a16z probe, what it could mean for VCs, and more of the week\u2019s headlines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TechCrunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Overcast<\/a>,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and all the casts. 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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:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/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\/video\/why-is-the-doj-investigating-andreessen-horowitzs-board-seats\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now\u00a0compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at\u00a0Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except\u00a0the Department of\u00a0Justice\u00a0has\u00a0reportedly\u00a0been investigating the arrangement\u00a0for\u00a0almost\u00a0a\u00a0year, dusting\u00a0off a 112-year-old antitrust\u00a0law\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0rarely used against VCs.\u00a0 Board conflicts\u00a0aren\u2019t\u00a0exactly new, and these companies\u00a0weren\u2019t\u00a0necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77473,151534,152300,143888,141199,70917,151477,71745],"class_list":["post-744695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-andreessen-horowitz","tag-ai-startups","tag-anthropic","tag-antitrust","tag-openai","tag-startups","tag-venture","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744695","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=744695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}