Ben Horowitz says he’ll donate to Kamala Harris after all

“As I mentioned before, Felicia and I person known Vice President Harris for implicit 10 years and she has been a large person to some of america during that time,” Horowitz wrote successful an email to his task superior steadfast obtained by Axios. “As a effect of our friendship, Felicia and I volition beryllium making a important donation to entities who enactment the Harris Walz campaign.”

I... listen. Two things. First, 1 of the astir striking things astir the podcast Horowitz made with his a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen was however focused some men were connected who’d instrumentality their meetings. Their governmental commitments successful galore respects boiled down to who would walk look clip with them. Near the extremity of the podcast, Horowitz told what was (I think?) expected to beryllium a heartwarming communicative astir hanging retired with Trump’s grandkids — and however his absorption to proceeding astir the assassination effort connected Trump was “Oh my god, Grandpa conscionable got shot.”

So you know, the full happening wherever Harris has been “a large friend” to some Horowitz and his woman checks retired arsenic a governmental presumption for him. In immoderate respects, I get it. I excessively privation to spot my friends succeed!

But second, that important Trump endorsement was made before Joe Biden dropped retired of the statesmanlike contention successful favour of Harris, and earlier the enormous outpouring of support for the caller Democratic candidate. That meant a16z had already sacrificed immoderate leverage it mightiness person with a Harris medication — and a campaigner who made Trump look similar little of a definite winner. In the lawsuit of a Harris win, these boys were looking astatine an full 4 years without important meetings, and we already cognize they presumption that arsenic a dreadful calamity for the full nation.

In bid to regain immoderate anticipation of leverage successful a perchance Democrat-led government, idiosyncratic was going to person to devour humble pie, and it definite arsenic crap wasn’t going to beryllium Andreessen. Horowitz, whose enactment for Trump was termed a “Maga U-turn” by The San Francisco Standard, has a past of donating to progressive causes; Harris, past a senator, was adjacent a impermanent astatine a Horowitz backyard barbecue successful 2018.

“I’m conscionable wondering what they’re gonna bash erstwhile Kamala wins,” 1 laminitis told The San Francisco Standard of the a16z Trump endorsement. “Like, however bash you locomotion that back?”

Well, I conjecture we cognize now. Horowitz’s email says that he’s had respective conversations with Harris and her squad — important to enactment present that helium got to the campaigner herself, fixed that entree is seemingly 1 of Horowtiz’s main governmental concerns. And truthful portion Horowitz inactive thinks President Joe Biden is no-good and precise bad, helium is “encouraged by my belief” successful Harris to bash bully for tech, contempt the information that she has not yet staked retired immoderate argumentation positions.

Harris has sort of made overtures connected what Horowitz termed “probably the astir affectional topic” successful the election: crypto. One of her run aides has said, “She’s going to enactment policies that guarantee that emerging technologies and that benignant of manufacture tin proceed to grow,” in effect to a question astir crypto.