Andreessen has been interacting with Thiel’s network on Twitter for a few years now. These guys always have takes that can appear intriguing for being contrary

Andreessen has been interacting with Thiel’s network on Twitter for a few years now. These guys always have takes that can appear intriguing for being contrary to popular opinion, but once you see where the money originates, their attitudes become predictable. Andreessen in particular has spent a few years flirting with the literature they send him. It might have been sincere (a lot of this literature is popular among Silicon Valley rightists), but in retrospect it seems like it was just a PR campaign to make him look like one of the “cool” billionaires. Once Andreessen gave the “Little Tech” interview, it became apparent to a lot of people where his true interests were. Similar things happened with Elon Musk, JD Vance, Blake Masters, Palmer Luckey, and others in that sphere. I think Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy his way in in the last few years, but I’ve never seen any evidence that it worked.