{"id":21627,"date":"2025-02-04T23:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T00:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21627"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:32:35","slug":"daniel-penny-is-hired-by-venture-capital-firm-whose-founder-backed-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21627","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Penny Is Hired by Venture Capital Firm Whose Founder Backed Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger to death, will work for Andreessen Horowitz. Before the killing, he had been an architecture student.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide<\/a> in Manhattan in December, has been hired by one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most prestigious venture capital firms to join its \u201cAmerican Dynamism\u201d team.<\/p>\n

Mr. Penny, a Long Island native and former architecture student, will work in a group that supports American interests, including the aerospace, defense and manufacturing sectors, according to the website of the company, Andreessen Horowitz.<\/p>\n

Mr. Penny was charged in 2023 by the Manhattan district attorney\u2019s office with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after a video of him fatally choking another passenger, Jordan Neely, on the subway circulated online that May.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe in Daniel and are excited to have him as part of our team,\u201d David Ulevitch, a partner at the firm, wrote in a memo to employees on Tuesday that was relayed to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Ulevitch said in the memo that the firm plans to teach Mr. Penny \u201cthe business of investing\u201d and that he will support several of the firm\u2019s portfolio companies. On Andreessen Horowitz\u2019s website, Mr. Penny is listed<\/a> as a \u201cdeal partner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Margit Wennmachers, a spokeswoman for the firm, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Thomas Kenniff, Mr. Penny\u2019s lawyer during the trial, said that he and his partner, Steven Raiser, were \u201cextremely happy\u201d about the news.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger to death, will work for Andreessen Horowitz. Before the killing, he had been an architecture student.Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide in Manhattan in December, has been hired by one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most prestigious venture capital firms to join its \u201cAmerican Dynamism\u201d team.Mr. Penny, a Long Island native and former architecture student, will work in a group that supports American interests, including the aerospace, defense and manufacturing sectors, according to the website of the company, Andreessen Horowitz.Mr. Penny was charged in 2023 by the Manhattan district attorney\u2019s office with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after a video of him fatally choking another passenger, Jordan Neely, on the subway circulated online that May.\u201cWe believe in Daniel and are excited to have him as part of our team,\u201d David Ulevitch, a partner at the firm, wrote in a memo to employees on Tuesday that was relayed to The New York Times.Mr. Ulevitch said in the memo that the firm plans to teach Mr. Penny \u201cthe business of investing\u201d and that he will support several of the firm\u2019s portfolio companies. On Andreessen Horowitz\u2019s website, Mr. Penny is listed as a \u201cdeal partner.\u201dMargit Wennmachers, a spokeswoman for the firm, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Thomas Kenniff, Mr. Penny\u2019s lawyer during the trial, said that he and his partner, Steven Raiser, were \u201cextremely happy\u201d about the news.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21629,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21630,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627\/revisions\/21630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}