It's been 15 months since @pmarca & @a16z published "it's time to build."
Question: WTF have they done in support of this thesis?
Marc said we should be "solving the climate crisis by building."
From what I can see, @a16z has only made a few meager investments in climate tech.
Andreessen Horowitz seems to think they can help "build" by launching content sites like future.a16z.com.
How about investing real 💵 to *build* real solutions?
(Also, @a16z has tweeted about "climate change" exactly once).
💯 @sethbannon:
“It’s super frustrating to see people that control hundreds of millions of dollars tweeting about the next e-gaming unicorn that they’re chasing, when you have millions of people who are being forced to migrate all because of a crisis that technology can solve."
Tired: "Software is eating the world."
Wired: "Climate change is destroying the world."
VCs: show me the money (you're investing climate change solutions).
You want to make a dent in the universe? Help us clean this shit up.
For transparency: my company, @TransistorFM, is a small, bootstrapped 3-person company.
Last year we gave $10k to @RainforestUS.
This year, we've contributed nearly $10k to @stripe's carbon removal program (kudos to @patrickc for setting this up!)
Investors like @sacca have been raising the alarm for years.
His new fund @lowercarbon is deploying millions to fight the climate change problem.
We need more VCs like this. 🌱👏
(I wish I had enough $ to become an LP)
lowercarboncapital.com
Meanwhile, Andreessen Horowitz is (checks notes) investing $515 million in crypto?
🤦♂️
$4.5 million in 🌱 vs $515 milion in 🏭
You can do better @a16z: it's time to build!
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