shanley
@shanley
Analyst, tech fascism. Cantankerous leftist public intellectual. "She's insane" 17 years in tech, 13 years exposing venture capital. Welcome to my studio. www.vcinfodocs.com blog www.shanley.com audio
So one of the first major tasks Marc Andreessen had was getting credit card transactions to work over the browser, something he worked on with Hal Finney, who is widely believed (and I believe) was Satoshi. Then you have PayPal founded a few years later.
Anchorage Digital is another in this category. The *value* of crypto right now is depressed as tech fascists go to war with the legacy banks to get the legislation they want through the door via the CLARITY act.
Crypto is doing very well. Lots of times people focus on memecoins/betting markets as their measure of cryto's success, but the better metrics pertain to venture capital banks - in this area, Peter Thiel's Nubank growing wildly in Latin America, Thiel/Luckey bank Erebor is growing like a weed.
Seven years ago. (I don't get nearly enough credit for my timestamps btw they are wild good)
Gonna treat myself to a little re-watch of Mountainhead soon. The movie coming out was such a bright spot in all of this. I'm so happy I livetweeted this because you can see the exact moment my mind is blown.
Peter Thiel, who is a lawyer, has been for years laying the legal groundwork to weaponize anti-communism against not only China, not only the global south, but in its faceoff with the US tech giants over their monopolies. 2019:
The one world, totalitarian state he is talking about is communism and specifically, China.
Please wake up. Peter Thiel's "anti-christ" is about communism and any idiot who doesn't include this in their analysis is a liar or a moron. This is literally about China and Silicon Valley's cold war. www.christianpost.com/news/palanti...
Venture capital continues to grow at a terrific pace, "Overall, investment in U.S. and Canadian startups totaled a staggering $392 billion for the first half of 2026, per Crunchbase data, dwarfing anything we’ve seen before." news.crunchbase.com/venture/na-s...
Also interesting is this is from Israel's Sheba Medical Center, which is partnered with General Catalyst -- one of the worst of the worst VC firms -- for "shared investment opportunities in General Catalyst’s and in ARC’s portfolio companies"
Well this is troubling. And another sign of how Israel is working with venture capitalists to invade Latin America and bolster the administrations and policies of puppet politicians in Latin America. Oh okay, Israeli war criminal "doctors" .
Gets real interesting when you look at Kobold Metals, which is one of the most important mining startups and that is backed by our foes Andreessen Horowitz. Kobold who is doing everything it can to get its hands on the treasure map:
This is important in regards to venture capital's FAST AS HELL moves into mining, their activity in various countries in Africa, their mining startups + cold war:
Well wouldn't you absolutely know. A16z, tech fascism as the knowledge source, the data pool for AI.
This is just only one of many issues in tech fascism that certainly evoke medial emergency and wide scale medical catastrophe
I feel so old because i'm like "ThhE WeaTHeR WAsNT lIIKE thIS WHen I WaaS A YOUTh" 😭😂 Literally: