GP @a16z. Former CFO x3 (@Splunk, @Lyft, @OpenSea). Wrong guy for Xfinity complaints, promise.

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Brian Roberts retweeted
All seven Databricks co-founders began our journey together at UC Berkeley. We started the company in a room in Soda Hall, moved to a small office on Addison Street, and spent our first few years in Berkeley before eventually heading to SF. Two of our co-founders are still on the faculty. Today we announced Databricks Field at California Memorial Stadium, our first collegiate athletics sponsorship. Berkeley shaped everything about how this company thinks, and this is our way of investing in the next generation of students and builders who'll do their best work on that campus. Go Bears! databricks.com/company/newsr…
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Brian Roberts retweeted
Grok @Bot now in your Tesla!
.@Grok in your Tesla can now do meaningful work for you With Connectors, you can manage your inbox, clean up your calendar, or talk through existing files/chat/tasks – all hands-free
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Brian Roberts retweeted
While I’m disappointed by today’s Senate vote, it doesn’t change the fact that crypto’s fundamentals are stronger than ever. Billions of dollars are moving onchain, leading payments companies and financial institutions are adopting blockchain technology, and entrepreneurs around the world are building new financial products that bring money into the internet age. Our work in DC is far from over. We’ll keep working for clear rules that protect consumers and let entrepreneurs build.
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Brian Roberts retweeted
It’s no secret that I’m bullish on Florida as a federalist project that’s attracting capital and businesses from across the country. It’s an extraordinary place to live and build. West Palm Beach is the epitome of this kind of growth—and Stephen Ross and team are building a truly dynamic city and ecosystem. It’s been an incredible story of growth in America and we’re excited to become a larger part of it. The American Dynamism team at @a16z is excited to open our West Palm Beach office. It's time to Build 🌴🇺🇸🚀
Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz is the latest venture-capital firm to open a new office in Florida to invest in startup defense companies on.wsj.com/3UGyUmI
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Brian Roberts retweeted
Proud to back Covenant as they come out of stealth today. The West needs far more deep-strike capacity, built faster and at much greater scale. Covenant is doing exactly that with Anthem, manufacturing in Texas with more factories on the way. $250M raised. Hundreds of flight tests. Orders from the Army, Navy, and allies. First deliveries planned for 2027. Production is essential and @HQ_Covenant is here to meet the production need. 🇺🇸
Today, Covenant is emerging from stealth and introducing Anthem: a heavy-payload deep precision strike capability designed for mass production, with deliveries beginning in the thousands in 2027. We’ve raised $250 million, flown Anthem in more than 200 tests, and secured approximately $150 million in orders, including contracts with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and key international allies. We’re building Anthem at our 105,000-square-foot production facility in Dallas, alongside factories in Germany and Israel. Covenant is backed by @a16z, @foundersfund, @Lux_Capital, @lightspeedvp, @8vc, @aleph, and @AltimeterCap. Deep precision strike is the biggest gap in the arsenal of the West, and we spent the last two years building Anthem to fill it. Now we deliver at scale.
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Brian Roberts retweeted
AI is a world-defining category alongside the microprocessor, the steam engine, and electricity. Every one of them required an entirely new physical world to be built. We raised $1.1B to build this one.
$1.1B for the Machine Age.
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Brian Roberts retweeted
Scoop: The FAA has partially reversed its SFO parallel landings ban. Fewer delays are now expected as staggered landings begin Aug. 12 at the west coast's second-busiest airport sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s…
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Brian Roberts retweeted
Founders don’t appear out of nowhere. BuildList now tracks 1,700+ founders across 700+ companies. We mapped prior-employment records to see which organizations keep producing the next generation of builders. Introducing BuildList Networks ↓
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Brian Roberts retweeted
That is flattering of her to say, but honestly I am an even bigger fan of Cyan! She’s becoming — and already is — legendary.
Cyan Banister (@cyantist) says the two people that inspire her the most are Peter Thiel and @pmarca: "I always joke that I didn't go to university. I went to Peter Thiel University." "I've never met anyone more tolerant, more open-minded. He gets such a bad rap for a lot of things. He's probably one of the most poorly understood people." "He's operating 1,000 feet above everybody else. His mind is not like other minds. It's kinda like @elonmusk. You don't know what to do with it, so it's just easier to hate it." " Marc Andreessen was my hero when I was a teenager. I used to see him on the cover of magazines." "Netscape was his thing, and Netscape changed my world and changed the whole world." "The two of them probably would not want to be in the same sentence together being heralded."
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Brian Roberts retweeted
New CFO benchmark just dropped
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We're already here. Billionaire tax became $50m tax in 3 weeks. Soon it will be anyone with $1m in home equity. Why? Because you MUST tax the middle class to raise any real amount of money to cover the spending Ro and others want to spend. It's always a middle class tax.
"the tax should not stop at billionaires, it must reach centimillionaires. The tax has to reach all fortunes $50 million and up" - Ro Khanna
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Brian Roberts retweeted
🇺🇸 America 250. America Forever. 🇺🇸
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It's time to build!
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Brian Roberts retweeted
Dad, how did California lose the biggest IPO in history?
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🚨 #BREAKING: Elon Musk’s net worth surpasses the value of dozens of miles of California high-speed rail.
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This single tweet cost California hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, revenue, and jobs:
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It’s time to build!!!
Today we're launching @pitdotcom, with $16M funding led by @a16z. For ten years at Voi and other companies I watched something that drove me crazy. Smart people hired for their judgment, spending evenings reconciling data between systems that were never designed to talk to each other and chasing approvals over email at 11pm. Work that had nothing to do with why they joined. So we started building custom AI systems internally to take that work off their plates. Across Voi and Klarna the founding team had been doing this for years, because nothing on the market could actually do the job. The systems worked, but each one was a fragile one-off we couldn't hand to anyone else. Pit is what we wished existed back then. A platform that learns how your business actually works and builds the AI systems that run it for you, with enterprise security and governance from day one.
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Brian Roberts retweeted
Every security flaw discovered by AI was there before AI, waiting to be discovered either by people or by AI. The world has never been good at securing computer systems; finally with AI we are going to get good.
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