I’m still plowing through it, but I ran across a thread on X (I am giving in, dammit, and referring to Twitter as X now) with clips from Marc Andreessen’s interview on Joe Rogan, and it is a banger.
Andreessen is the guy who originally wrote Mosaic, the first web browser, founded Netscape, became a zillionaire, and now is a startup tech investor in Silicon Valley.
A Democrat in good standing until recently, he supported every Democrat who ran for president, from Bill Clinton to Hillary Clinton, and only became a Trump supporter very recently. It was his experience with the Biden administration and the increasingly tyrannical top-down economic and political bullying that drove him to Trump. It’s a path a number of Silicon Valley tech types have taken over the past couple of years.
On Rogan, he explains why, and it’s scary if not surprising. I have been saying …