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Ben Horowitz

Cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and former chief executive of Loudcloud and Opsware, whose family foundation gave 7,255,132 dollars to the Las Vegas police foundation and who funded crypto, AI and Trump super PACs.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Ben Horowitz (Benjamin A. Horowitz) is a cofounder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which he and Marc Andreessen started in 2009.1 He worked in product marketing at Lotus Development Corporation before joining Netscape in July 1995, where he ran product divisions including the Directory and Security line; was vice president and general manager of the E-Commerce Platform division of America Online in 1999; and from September 1999 was cofounder, president and chief executive of Loudcloud, which became Opsware and was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University and a master's from the University of California, Los Angeles.23 His a16z biography lists board seats at Anyscale, Databricks, Mayvenn, NationBuilder, Navan and UnitedMasters, and credits him with creating the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund.2

Loudcloud

The proxy statement of Loudcloud, Inc. for its annual meeting of June 26, 2001, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 25, 2001, states that Horowitz "is a co-founder of Loudcloud and has served as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director since September 1999," and that he had been at America Online from April to September 1999 and a vice president at Netscape Communications from July 1995 to April 1999. The board consisted of Horowitz, Andreessen, Andrew Rachleff of Benchmark Capital, William V. Campbell and Michael Ovitz.3

The proxy reports Horowitz's salary as 210,000 dollars for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2001 and 35,000 dollars for the period from the company's inception in September 1999 to January 2000, with an option grant of 500,000 shares; he was the only named executive granted options that year. As of May 11, 2001 he beneficially owned 4,158,453 shares, 5.5 percent of the class, of which 3,873,453 were held individually and 285,000 by the Horowitz Family Limited Partnership, and 2,288,334 were subject to the company's right of repurchase. Andreessen's trust held 9,110,899 shares (12.0 percent) and entities affiliated with Benchmark Capital 10,010,712 shares (13.2 percent). Entities affiliated with Amerindo Investment Advisors reported 4,323,502 shares (5.6 percent) on a Schedule 13G dated April 6, 2001.3

Sale of Opsware to Hewlett-Packard

Opsware's Schedule 14D-9 of August 3, 2007, which names Horowitz as chief executive and the person authorized to receive notices, responds to a tender offer by Hewlett-Packard at 14.25 dollars per share in cash. It narrates that Andreessen, Horowitz and John O'Farrell met senior executives of HP and other companies between January 30 and February 14, 2007; that on January 30 Thomas Hogan and Sandeep Johri of HP Software met Horowitz and O'Farrell; that on May 21 the chief executive of an unnamed "Company No. 1" sent Horowitz a written offer of 11 dollars per share on a day when Opsware closed at 7.97 dollars; that the board told bidders it would not consider offers below 14 dollars; that Company No. 1 raised its offer to 13.25 dollars on June 21 and to 14 dollars on July 5; that Opsware retained Goldman Sachs effective July 6; and that HP's chief technology officer, Shane Robison, telephoned Horowitz on July 14 to express HP's interest; on the afternoon of July 18 Robison indicated that, subject to approval by HP's board, HP would be willing to pay 14.25 dollars per share in cash.4

The board named in the filing is Campbell, Simon Lorne, Ovitz and Michelangelo Volpi as non-employee directors and Andreessen as chairman; the executive officers include Horowitz, Timothy Howes and O'Farrell. The directors and executive officers agreed in tender agreements to tender their shares. As of July 16, 2007 they beneficially owned 16,756,791 shares and vested options on 7,623,156 shares, and the filing calculates that they would receive about 319,001,551 dollars in the offer and merger. Horowitz's stock option agreement of February 24, 2004 provided that half of the unvested shares would vest on a change in control, with the rest vesting monthly over the following year, and that all of them would vest on a termination without cause. The filing's table gives Horowitz 1,065,627 shares under unvested options, with accelerated value of 150,750 dollars on the change in control itself and 7,489,921 dollars on an involuntary termination not for cause.4 The a16z biography states that HP paid 1.6 billion dollars for Opsware and appointed Horowitz vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software.2

AliphCom (Jawbone)

An action by unanimous written consent of the board of directors of AliphCom, the maker of Jawbone wearable devices, dated May 2012 and approving a common stock financing, carries signature lines for five directors: Alexander Asseily, Roelof Botha, Horowitz, Hosain Rahman and David Weiden.5 Botha was then a partner of Sequoia Capital.

An authorization to disburse funds for AliphCom's Series 8 preferred stock financing names Mort, Inc. as the purchaser, in the amount of 1,249,996.88 dollars, with the date left blank.6 On February 4, 2016 Richard Kahn forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein a "Mort Series 8 Timeline" sent to him that day by Andrew Lindsay of Jawbone, which stated that Jawbone negotiated the Series 8 terms with JPMorgan Chase and Sequoia Capital in July 2015, that BlackRock invested 50 million dollars on July 21, 2015, that the initial Series 8 closing of 40 million dollars from JPMorgan and Sequoia was completed on July 24, 2015, and that Jawbone e-mailed Mort on August 13 about investing on the same terms. Kahn asked Epstein whether to send an email requesting the money back or pass.7 A notice dated July 7, 2017 states that AliphCom, doing business as Jawbone, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors on June 19, 2017.8

Las Vegas Police Donations

On October 11, 2024 Horowitz published a post titled "Safety First" on the a16z website, opening with a statement that TechCrunch was "working on yet another piece on me." He wrote that he and his wife, Felicia Horowitz, had donated 800,000 dollars for computer terminals, about 120,000 dollars for an ice machine, a cappuccino machine and a gymnasium, 400,000 dollars for technology from the a16z portfolio company Prepared911, and "approximately $6.3 million dollars" toward the products of the a16z portfolio companies Skydio and Flock Safety, for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD). He wrote that "By donating the technology, I am able to give LVMPD a running start," described a sequence in which a Flock license plate alert dispatches a Skydio drone automatically, and reported that the share of 911 calls answered in under 15 seconds had risen to 95 percent for the year through September 2024 from 66 percent, and that homicides had fallen from 101 to 80.9

Margaux MacColl and Sean O'Kane of TechCrunch reported on November 8, 2024, from more than 100 emails between Horowitz and the department and internal police emails, mostly from January 2023 to July 2024, obtained by public records request, that LVMPD chief of staff Mike Gennaro had forwarded a Skydio proposal to Horowitz, who replied "Which deployment are you looking to do?" and was told "Whatever you want, Ben." Horowitz then sent money to the police foundation to buy Skydio drones. He questioned the scope of Skydio's proposal, which included drone docks on schools, writing "I thought that we just wanted this for the 11 neighborhoods" and "They bid the schools too. Is that what we asked for?"; Gennaro replied that "We can adjust however you see fit," and LVMPD said that no drone docks had been installed in its jurisdiction. Three months later, raising another a16z company, Kodex, Horowitz wrote: "If it's a good idea, I am happy to help, but let's not let the company know that. We don't need another Skyd.io proposal lol." The reporters wrote that Horowitz had facilitated communication between LVMPD and at least six a16z portfolio companies, that police leadership had concerns about a proposed donation of technology from the a16z-backed company Toka, and that an LVMPD sergeant who had evaluated Skydio drones later became a program manager at Skydio. An a16z spokesperson said there was "nothing more for Ben to share beyond his blog post."10

The same report states that a16z held its 2023 limited partner summit in Las Vegas, where Sheriff Kevin McMahill, in uniform, sat between the Flock Safety founder Garrett Langley and the a16z partner David Ulevitch and said of Flock's products that "Every piece of that technology is the equivalent of three police officers."10 Estelle Atkinson of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on February 6, 2025 that Metro had accepted at least 7 million dollars from Horowitz through the foundation that supports it, that the donations had funded license plate readers, drones, communications center upgrades and a 911 upgrade, and that McMahill appeared in an interview with Andreessen and Horowitz posted on the firm's YouTube channel on November 18, 2024, in which he said that most of Metro's 1.5 billion dollar budget goes to salaries and benefits and spoke of enveloping high-crime areas in "technology bubbles." The University of Chicago sociologist Robert Vargas asked: "Are they accountable to the public, or are they accountable to their donors?" LVMPD said in a statement that "If we can envelop neighborhoods in a technology bubble, we can reduce crime and save people's lives."11 Akiya Leggio of the Review-Journal reported on February 26, 2025 that LVMPD stated "Ben and Felicia Horowitz donated the Cybertrucks to LVMPD" and that "This donation did not go through the LVMPD Foundation," after McMahill announced in his State of the Department address that Metro had ordered 10 Tesla Cybertrucks as patrol and SWAT vehicles that would not affect its general budget.12

Horowitz Family Foundation

The Horowitz Family Foundation (employer identification number 35-7050910) is a private foundation that files Form 990-PF for fiscal years ending June 30, prepared by Frank Rimerman and Co. Its trustees are Felicia Annette Horowitz and a second family member, and its contributor schedules list "Benjamin and Felicia Horowitz," at an address in Atherton, California on the returns through June 2021 and in Las Vegas, Nevada, from the return for June 2022.13

The contributions were made in shares. The return for the year ended June 2019 lists 63,758 shares of Microsoft worth 7,128,028 dollars. The year ended June 2021 lists shares of Slack Technologies (200,000 shares, 5,145,000 dollars), Pinterest (254,450 shares, 14,975,655 dollars), Lyft (200,000 shares, 10,007,000 dollars), Facebook, Dropbox, Upwork, Zuora and 1Life Healthcare. The year ended June 2022 lists Salesforce (110,880 shares, 27,114,595 dollars), Airbnb (114,511 shares in two gifts, 20,448,175 dollars), Pinterest (8,630,050 dollars), Affirm (7,883,080 dollars in two gifts), DigitalOcean, Roblox and smaller holdings in Opendoor, Amplitude, Poshmark and Warby Parker. The year ended June 2024 lists 35,400 shares of Coinbase worth 8,154,390 dollars, given on May 6, 2024, as well as Airbnb, Lyft and Nu Holdings. The year ended June 2025 lists 150,000 shares of Reddit (8,501,250 dollars) and 92,000 shares of Maplebear (3,266,920 dollars), both given on September 10, 2024, and shares of Yubico.13

The returns record these grants to the LVMPD Foundation: 500,000 dollars for "police support" in the year ended June 30, 2021; none among the twelve grants of the year ended June 2022; 2,015,000 dollars for "support of police" in the year ended June 2023; and 4,740,132 dollars for "support of police" in the year ended June 2024, to "LVMPD Foundation Friends of Las Vegas" at 110 N. City Parkway, Suite 420, recorded as a public charity with no relationship to the foundation's managers. The three grants total 7,255,132 dollars.13 TechCrunch reported the 2 million dollar donation of 2023 and the purpose "support of police."10 The recipient, incorporated in 1999 as Friends for Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (employer identification number 88-0429730) and now filing as the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation at the same Suite 420 address, describes itself as raising funds "to support youth and community programs, equipment and technology, and officer training." It reported contributions of 1,084,255 dollars for 2019, 6,826,048 dollars for 2020, 11,865,125 dollars for 2021, 10,497,885 dollars for 2022 (with expenses of 27,507,555 dollars), 6,474,809 dollars for 2023 and 5,864,773 dollars for 2024.14

The Horowitz foundation's earlier grants included 250,000 dollars to the Barack Obama Foundation, 250,000 dollars to the Anti-Recidivism Coalition and 300,000 dollars to American Jewish World Service in the year ended June 2019; 570,000 dollars to American Jewish World Service and 260,300 dollars to The Potter's House of T. D. Jakes in the year ended June 2021; 250,000 dollars each to the T. D. Jakes Foundation and the Apollo Theater Foundation in the year ended June 2022; 1,000,000 dollars to Stanford University for Stanford Health Care and 86,250 dollars to Harvard for a Nasir Jones Hiphop Archive fellow in the year ended June 2023; and 1,000,000 dollars to Friends of United Hatzalah and 750,000 dollars to the Chabad of the North Peninsula Israel Solidarity Fund in the year ended June 2024, along with annual grants to the UMC Foundation of Las Vegas. Total assets at book value were 15,604,829 dollars at June 2019, 61,744,089 dollars at June 2021, 134,152,684 dollars at June 2022, 134,271,519 dollars at June 2023 and 144,805,727 dollars at June 2024.13

For the year ended June 30, 2025 the foundation reported grants of 147,508,395 dollars, of which 144,112,395 dollars went to the National Philanthropic Trust of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, "for support for art, education, and health." Other grants were 1,000,000 dollars each to the MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Cleveland Clinic, 696,000 dollars to the Tides Foundation, 100,000 dollars to Hope for Prisoners, and 400,000 dollars to Behind the Blue of Las Vegas for "support of police." There was no grant to the LVMPD Foundation, and total assets fell to 39,376,336 dollars.13 Behind the Blue (employer identification number 83-4125717), recognized in 2019, states that it provides financial relief to Southern Nevada law enforcement employees facing catastrophic incidents; it reported contributions of 359,865 dollars for 2023, 1,499,990 dollars for 2024 and 6,280,470 dollars for 2025.15

Federal Political Contributions

Federal Election Commission records list Horowitz giving 33,400 dollars to the Democratic Hope Fund on October 9, 2015, with Atherton as his city, and 1,000,000 dollars on May 27, 2022 to GMI PAC.16 Contributions from AH Capital Management, the a16z management company, are attributed in equal shares to Horowitz and Andreessen on the recipients' filings: AH Capital Management entries of May 30 and November 6, 2024 carry the memo "SEE ATTRIBUTION BELOW," and the entries under Horowitz's and Andreessen's names on the same dates carry memo code X.17 The crypto industry super PAC Fairshake (committee C00835959, first filed March 23, 2023, treasurer Brandon Philipczyk) lists AH Capital Management for 5,000,000 dollars on October 23, 2023, 14,000,000 dollars on December 14, 2023, 25,000,000 dollars on May 30, 2024, 23,000,000 dollars on November 6, 2024 and 23,800,000 dollars on December 10, 2025, and attributes half of each to Horowitz: 2,500,000, 7,000,000, 12,500,000, 11,500,000 and 11,900,000 dollars, a total of 45,400,000 dollars. Fairshake reported receipts of 260,070,709 dollars for the 2024 cycle and 137,923,216 dollars for the 2026 cycle through the latest report.17 Its affiliated super PACs Defend American Jobs and Protect Progress list Horowitz for 750,000 dollars each in October and December 2023, 125,000 dollars each in November 2024 and 50,000 dollars each on December 10, 2025.18

In July 2024 Andreessen and Horowitz announced on their podcast that they would support Donald Trump; Horowitz said that "For Little Tech, we think Donald Trump is actually the right choice," adding "And sorry, Mom," and said they had dined with Trump, as Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert of Business Insider reported.19 On July 22, 2024 Horowitz, listing his employer as A16Z, gave 2,500,000 dollars to Right for America, a super PAC whose website stated its goal "to ensure President Donald J. Trump is victorious in the 2024 presidential election"; Andreessen gave 2,500,000 dollars on July 24. Right for America reported 72,503,980 dollars in receipts and 69,583,233 dollars in independent expenditures for the 2024 cycle.1920

On Friday, October 4, 2024, Horowitz told a16z employees by email that he and Felicia had known Kamala Harris for more than ten years, that she had been "a friend to the firm in our early days, helping with several events at my house when we built the original Cultural Leadership Fund network," and that "Felicia and I will be making a significant donation to entities who support the Harris Walz campaign," while the firm would not change its position, as Dan Primack of Axios reported.21 On October 7, 2024 Horowitz gave 2,500,000 dollars to BlackPAC, a super PAC that reported 34,730,789 dollars in receipts for the cycle.20 The 11,500,000 dollars attributed to him at Fairshake followed on November 6, 2024, the day after the election.17

In 2025 and 2026 Horowitz is listed as giving 500,000 dollars on February 4, 2025, 2,500,000 dollars on March 31, 2025 and 3,000,000 dollars on March 10, 2026 to MAGA Inc., a total of 6,000,000 dollars, and 12,500,000 dollars on each of August 22, 2025 and February 11, 2026 to Leading the Future, attributed as partnership contributions, a total of 25,000,000 dollars.22 Partnership attributions to him at the Senate Leadership Fund were 125,000 dollars on March 7, 2024, 250,000 dollars on June 20, 2024, 125,000 dollars on March 31, 2025 and 750,000 dollars on March 19, 2026, and at the Democratic super PAC SMP 250,000 dollars on each of June 20 and September 20, 2024.1822 Contributions under his own name to party committees include the National Republican Senatorial Committee (13,766 dollars on February 29, 2024, 120,467 dollars to its legal proceedings account on May 19, 2025 and 44,300 dollars on February 24, 2026), the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (44,300 dollars on September 22, 2025 and 22,150 dollars on February 23, 2026) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and committees supporting JD Vance (Vance Victory, April 11, 2024), John Thune, John Cornyn, Cory Booker, Ritchie Torres, Patrick McHenry and Susan Collins.18

Lobbying

The Lobbying Disclosure Act database lists A16Z Capital Management LLC, formerly AH Capital Management and doing business as Andreessen Horowitz, as an in-house registrant from January 25, 2023, with reported expenses of 950,000 dollars for 2023 (330,000, 340,000, 120,000 and 160,000 dollars by quarter), 1,760,000 dollars for 2024 (280,000, 660,000, 450,000 and 370,000 dollars), 3,530,000 dollars for 2025 (650,000 dollars; 840,000 dollars for the second quarter as amended from 790,000 dollars; 1,330,000 dollars; 710,000 dollars) and 1,540,000 dollars for the first half of 2026 (660,000 and 880,000 dollars). The reports list digital asset market structure and stablecoin legislation, anti-money laundering proposals, oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, artificial intelligence and, from 2025, open-source artificial intelligence, the National Defense Authorization Acts, health legislation and tax. Its in-house lobbyists have included Collin McCune, who lists service as deputy director and director of the House Financial Services Committee from 2019 to 2022; Colin Rom, formerly a senior adviser at the Food and Drug Administration and a confidential assistant at the Office of Management and Budget; Michael Reed, formerly director of whip operations for the House Minority Whip and senior adviser in the office of the Speaker; and Josh Arnold, formerly deputy chief of staff to Senator Cynthia Lummis.23

Outside firms registered for the firm are Mehlman Consulting (registered May 9, 2023; 180,000 dollars for 2023, 300,000 dollars for 2024, 320,000 dollars for 2025 and 160,000 dollars for the first half of 2026), McDermott+ (July 5, 2023 to the second quarter of 2026), Cornerstone Government Affairs (November 26, 2024; 100,000 dollars for 2024, 320,000 dollars for 2025 and 160,000 dollars for the first half of 2026), Miller Strategies (March 14, 2025; 410,000 dollars for 2025 and 240,000 dollars for the first half of 2026), BGR Government Affairs (March 20, 2025; 270,000 dollars for 2025 and 160,000 dollars for the first half of 2026), Zero Mile Strategies (February 10, 2026, on defense technology and acquisition reform in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act; 62,500 dollars), the Sternhell Group (2026, financial services; 150,000 dollars), Capitol Tax Partners (April 30, 2026) and Raab Government Strategies (July 16, 2026, on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act). Mehlman's filings list Bruce Mehlman, formerly Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy; Miller Strategies lists Jonathan Hiler, formerly director of legislative affairs to Vice President Mike Pence; BGR lists Joseph Lai, formerly special assistant to the President for legislative affairs, and Patrick Ames, formerly a senior policy adviser at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Zero Mile lists Christopher Vieson, a former staff director of the House Armed Services Committee, and Phil MacNaughton, a former professional staff member of the committee; and Raab lists a former policy director to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Vieson and MacNaughton registered through The VM Group for Scale AI in 2026, and Mehlman and Cornerstone also represent Scale AI.2324

Family

Horowitz is the son of the writer and activist David Horowitz, founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, who died on April 29, 2025 at the age of 86. Misty Severi of Just the News and Heather Hunter of the Washington Examiner reported that David Horowitz was survived by his sons Ben and Jonathan and a daughter, that Ben Horowitz posted "Rest in Peace to my father," and that the family's obituary recounted that when Ben told Trump about his father the previous year, "President Trump's face immediately lit up and he insisted that Benjamin get David on the phone immediately."2526 Horowitz lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Felicia Horowitz, a trustee of the family foundation.1113

Relationships 23

Founded
  • Opsware, from 1999, cofounder of Loudcloud, later renamed Opsware3
  • Andreessen Horowitz, from 2009, cofounder and general partner1
Partner of
Employed by
  • Netscape, 1995–1999, vice president3
  • America Online, 1999, vice president and general manager, E-Commerce Platform division3
  • Hewlett-Packard, from 2007, vice president and general manager, Business Technology Optimization for Software2
Head of
  • Opsware, 1999–2007, president and chief executive of Loudcloud and Opsware3
Director of
  • Anyscale, board member per a16z biography, 20262
  • Databricks, board member per a16z biography, 20262
  • NationBuilder, board member per a16z biography, 20262
  • Navan, board member per a16z biography, 20262
  • Opsware, from 1999, director3
  • AliphCom, from 2012, director, signatory of board consent5
Funded
  • Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation, through the Horowitz Family Foundation, 500,000 dollars (year to June 2021), 2,015,000 dollars (June 2023), 4,740,132 dollars (June 2024)13
  • Fairshake, 2023–2025, 45,400,000 dollars attributed on the committee's filings17
  • Senate Leadership Fund, 2024–2026, 1,250,000 dollars attributed in four contributions18
  • Right for America, 2024, 2,500,000 dollars20
  • BlackPAC, 2024, 2,500,000 dollars20
  • Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, from 2025, Tesla Cybertrucks donated directly with Felicia Horowitz, outside the foundation12
  • MAGA Inc., 2025–2026, 6,000,000 dollars in three contributions22
  • Leading the Future, 2025–2026, 25,000,000 dollars in two contributions attributed on the filings22
Relative of
  • David Horowitz, parent25
Spouse of
  • Felicia Horowitz, spouse11

Sources

  1. Andreessen Horowitz. "Who We Are." a16z.com/about, accessed October 1, 2026. https://a16z.com/about/ ↩
  2. Andreessen Horowitz. "Ben Horowitz," biography and author page, a16z.com, accessed October 1, 2026. https://a16z.com/author/ben-horowitz/ ↩
  3. Loudcloud, Inc. Definitive proxy statement (Schedule 14A) for the annual meeting of June 26, 2001, filed May 25, 2001, accession 0001012870-01-501008, sections on directors, security ownership and executive compensation. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1100813/000101287001501008/ddef14a.txt ↩
  4. Opsware Inc. Solicitation/Recommendation Statement (Schedule 14D-9), filed August 3, 2007, accession 0001047469-07-006048, "Background of the Offer," "Interests of Certain Persons" and acceleration tables. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1100813/000104746907006048/a2179079zsc14d9.htm ↩
  5. U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA01087665 (DataSet 9), AliphCom, Action by Unanimous Written Consent of the Board of Directors, May 2012, signature page EFTA01087668. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01087665.pdf ↩
  6. U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00589426 (DataSet 9), "Authorization to Disburse Funds," AliphCom Series 8 Preferred Stock Financing. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00589426.pdf ↩
  7. U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00835155 (DataSet 9), email of Richard Kahn to Jeffrey Epstein, "Fwd: Mort Series 8 Timeline," February 4, 2016, forwarding message of Andrew Lindsay of Jawbone. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00835155.pdf ↩
  8. U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00793054 (DataSet 9), Notice of Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors, AliphCom dba Jawbone, dated July 7, 2017. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00793054.pdf ↩
  9. Horowitz, Ben. "Safety First." Andreessen Horowitz, October 11, 2024. https://a16z.com/safety-first/ ↩
  10. MacColl, Margaux, and Sean O'Kane. "Ben Horowitz's cozy relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department aided a16z portfolio company Skydio." TechCrunch, November 8, 2024. https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/08/ben-horowitzs-cozy-relationship-with-the-las-vegas-police-department-aided-a16z-portfolio-company-skydio/ ↩
  11. Atkinson, Estelle. "Donor's millions aid Las Vegas police, observers raise questions" (headline "'Blurring the lines'"). Las Vegas Review-Journal, February 6, 2025. https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/blurring-the-lines-as-donors-millions-aid-las-vegas-police-observers-raise-questions-3276842/ ↩
  12. Leggio, Akiya. "Las Vegas police Cybertrucks donated by venture capitalist Ben Horowitz." Las Vegas Review-Journal, February 26, 2025. https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/las-vegas/venture-capital-firm-co-founder-funds-metro-cybertrucks-3311590/ ↩
  13. Horowitz Family Foundation (EIN 35-7050910), Form 990-PF e-file returns for fiscal years ended June 30: 2019 (IRS object 201903169349101270, download990xml_2019_2.zip), 2021 (202113159349103201, 2021_TEOS_XML_01A.zip), 2022 (202243189349107164, 2022_TEOS_XML_02A.zip), 2023 (202303189349101720, 2023_TEOS_XML_11A.zip), 2024 (202443099349101029, 2024_TEOS_XML_11A.zip) and 2025 (202601289349101920, 2026_TEOS_XML_05A.zip); Part VIII officers, Part XIV grants, balance sheets and Schedule B contributors and noncash property. https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/ ↩
  14. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation, formerly Friends for Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (EIN 88-0429730), Form 990 for 2023 (IRS object 202443209349324474, 2024_TEOS_XML_11A.zip) and 2024 (202531719349301233, 2025_TEOS_XML_06A.zip), https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/ ; ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, filings 2011 to 2023, https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/880429730.json ; IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Nevada, https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/eo_nv.csv ↩
  15. Behind the Blue (EIN 83-4125717), Form 990 for 2024 (IRS object 202501629349301600, 2025_TEOS_XML_06A.zip) and 2025 (202601319349305765, 2026_TEOS_XML_05A.zip), https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/ ; ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/834125717.json ↩
  16. Federal Election Commission, Schedule A receipts, contributor "Horowitz, Ben": Democratic Hope Fund, sub_id 4101220161340831485; GMI PAC, Inc., sub_id 4062420221531211249. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/ ↩
  17. Federal Election Commission, committee C00835959 (Fairshake): committee record; Schedule A sub_ids 4021420241824800105, 4021420241824800108, 4062620241962823146, 4011320251129780939 and 4090820261595851229 (Horowitz) and the AH Capital Management and Andreessen entries of the same dates; committee totals for the 2024 and 2026 cycles. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/committee/C00835959/ ; https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/committee/C00835959/totals/ ↩
  18. Federal Election Commission, Schedule A receipts, contributor names "Horowitz, Ben" and "Horowitz, Benjamin," two-year periods 2016 to 2026, minimum 10,000 dollars, queried October 1, 2026, including Protect Progress (sub_ids 4021620241825215174, 4020820251166868003, 4030420261386079637), Defend American Jobs (4020620241822088010, 4011620251132356569, 4030420261386107195), Senate Leadership Fund (4072320241978428485, 4071620241975074180, 4120420251296889061, 4070820261533602629), SMP (4071720241975953894, 4103020241011597927), NRSC (4032620241887526755, 4062320251206895252, 4032320261424905590), DSCC (4011520261302322980, 4032420261425235551) and Vance Victory (4080120241999430283). https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/ ↩
  19. Tangalakis-Lippert, Katherine. "Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5 million to a pro-Donald Trump super PAC." Business Insider, via Yahoo News, October 16, 2024. https://www.yahoo.com/news/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-donated-024002094.html ↩
  20. Federal Election Commission, committees C00867036 (Right for America) and C00609388 (BlackPAC): Schedule A sub_ids 4112020241071302621 (Horowitz to Right for America, July 22, 2024) and 4120620241075062279 (Horowitz to BlackPAC, October 7, 2024); committee totals for the 2024 cycle. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/committee/C00867036/totals/ ; https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/committee/C00609388/totals/ ↩
  21. Primack, Dan. "Scoop: VC titan Ben Horowitz plans 'significant' donation to Kamala Harris." Axios, October 4, 2024, including the text of Horowitz's email to employees. https://www.axios.com/2024/10/04/ben-horowitz-endorse-kamala-harris ↩
  22. Federal Election Commission, Schedule A receipts: MAGA Inc. (C00892471), sub_ids 4081920251218730892, 4081920251218730893 and 4060220261512109023; Leading the Future (C00916114), sub_ids 4030420261386103983 and 4042820261483765368. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/ ↩
  23. U.S. Senate and House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings for clients "Andreessen Horowitz," "AH Capital Management" and "A16Z," 2023 to 2026, including A16Z Capital Management LLC registration posted January 25, 2023 (https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/7b18b8c6-dcd5-4e94-a6ba-e859e398de2a/print/), Mehlman Consulting registration posted May 9, 2023 (https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/304977a5-3e0a-4d06-9f69-f2e5cb0cfc09/print/), McDermott+ registration posted July 5, 2023 and termination posted July 6, 2026, Cornerstone Government Affairs registration posted November 26, 2024, Miller Strategies registration posted March 14, 2025, BGR Government Affairs registration posted March 20, 2025, Zero Mile Strategies registration posted February 10, 2026 (https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/8e23305c-2d46-4df0-a09b-afa9586f12be/print/), Sternhell Group, Capitol Tax Partners and Raab Government Strategies registrations. https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=A16Z ↩
  24. Lobbying Disclosure Act filings for client Scale AI: The VM Group registration posted August 28, 2026, https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/4087f730-33fc-451b-952d-6e39e960ccd9/print/ ; Mehlman Consulting registration posted August 19, 2025, https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/abdd7fa4-d0dd-46f6-a946-a16482f72509/print/ ; Cornerstone Government Affairs registration posted October 11, 2023, https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/4bed6edb-c81c-41ff-aecb-e50754221888/print/ ↩
  25. Severi, Misty. "Conservative author and activist David Horowitz dies at 86." Just the News, April 29, 2025. https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/conservative-author-david-horowitz-dies-86 ↩
  26. Hunter, Heather. "Conservatives pay tribute following death of David Horowitz." Washington Examiner, April 30, 2025. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3397321/conservatives-pay-tribute-death-david-horowitz/ ↩

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