{"id":21669,"date":"2025-02-06T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21669"},"modified":"2025-02-06T04:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T04:24:28","slug":"andreessen-horowitz-defends-hiring-daniel-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21669","title":{"rendered":"Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring Daniel Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger to death, was hired to join the firm\u2019s American Dynamism investment team.<\/p>\n

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Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, the blue-chip venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, defended to investors their decision to hire Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide<\/a> last year, according to an internal memo viewed by The New York Times.<\/p>\n

Andreessen Horowitz, the memo said, is most likely the largest investor of public safety and defense venture capital in the country, and \u201cas result, we spend a lot of time with active-duty military, veterans, chiefs of police, sheriffs; these relationships are critical to the success of our companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Penny\u2019s \u201cmilitary veteran experience can be helpful in continuing to build these relationships, and many of our public safety and defense founders and partners have shared a similar sentiment,\u201d said the memo, which was sent on Wednesday by Jen Kha, the firm\u2019s head of investor relations.<\/p>\n

The firm told employees on Tuesday morning that it had hired Mr. Penny. David Ulevitch, an investment partner, said in a separate memo that he had been introduced to Mr. Penny last year and that the veteran had acted with \u201ccourage in a tough situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Ulevitch asked Mr. Penny to join the firm\u2019s American Dynamism investment team, which focuses on the aerospace, defense and manufacturing sectors.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ulevitch added that he had conducted \u201cinvestigations and interviews\u201d with Mr. Penny and believed that Mr. Penny had behaved \u201chonorably and appropriately given the chaotic and dangerous circumstances\u201d on the subway, the memo said.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger to death, was hired to join the firm\u2019s American Dynamism investment team.Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, the blue-chip venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, defended to investors their decision to hire Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide last year, according to an internal memo viewed by The New York Times.Andreessen Horowitz, the memo said, is most likely the largest investor of public safety and defense venture capital in the country, and \u201cas result, we spend a lot of time with active-duty military, veterans, chiefs of police, sheriffs; these relationships are critical to the success of our companies.\u201dMr. Penny\u2019s \u201cmilitary veteran experience can be helpful in continuing to build these relationships, and many of our public safety and defense founders and partners have shared a similar sentiment,\u201d said the memo, which was sent on Wednesday by Jen Kha, the firm\u2019s head of investor relations.The firm told employees on Tuesday morning that it had hired Mr. Penny. David Ulevitch, an investment partner, said in a separate memo that he had been introduced to Mr. Penny last year and that the veteran had acted with \u201ccourage in a tough situation.\u201dMr. Ulevitch asked Mr. Penny to join the firm\u2019s American Dynamism investment team, which focuses on the aerospace, defense and manufacturing sectors.Mr. Ulevitch added that he had conducted \u201cinvestigations and interviews\u201d with Mr. Penny and believed that Mr. Penny had behaved \u201chonorably and appropriately given the chaotic and dangerous circumstances\u201d on the subway, the memo said.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":21671,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21669","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\/21669","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=21669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21672,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669\/revisions\/21672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}