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#Thread B #MuellerInvestigation #Money "If all of this seems fanciful, consider the state of Silicon Valley today. When the same people /1
provide the initial investment in a start-up as the ones who ultimately purchase the company outright,who’s to say what’s exactly going on?2
We may assume there are proper checks in place, but there are warning signs that this simply isn’t the case." /3
"In any case,Silicon Valley Bank was founded in 1983 also in San Jose, California by Roger V. Smith. In 2014, Smith joined mobile shopping/4
app Just Sales in 2014. At the same time, former Twitter engineer Florian Leibert joined Just Sales as well. Leibert is also the CEO and /5
Co-Founder of a company called Mesosphere. One of the initial investors in Mesosphere was Andreessen Horowitz. In 2014,they led Series A /6
funding of Mesosphere, investing $10.5 million in the company.Series C investment round in March 2016 was led by Hewlett Packer Enterprise/7
(HPE)–where Marc Andreessen is on the board–and raised $73.5 million for Mesosphere. Series B funding amounted to $36 million. It was led /8
by Khosla Ventures, but Andreessen Horowitz provided additional funding as well.
Clearly, Andreessen Horowitz is heavily involved in /9
Clearly, Andreessen Horowitz is heavily involved in /9
Mesosphere. A company founded by Florian Leibert, who has direct links to Twitter and the founder of Silicon Valley Bank. Silicon Valley/10
itself, once you start to really take a long look, is a rather incestuous affair. Money flows a lot of different ways between Venture /11
Capital firms, start-ups and the big guys like Google, Facebook and Twitter." /12 #Thread B #MuellerInvestigation #money
