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My ears always perk up when I hear that a lifelong Democrat has thrown his or her support behind President-elect Donald Trump. One of the biggest surprises of the 2024 election cycle was the sheer number of people who did just that. Two key factors drove this shift. First, many working-class voters finally grasped that the Democratic Party, which they had blindly supported for decades, had abandoned them. The second factor concerned Democrats at the opposite end of the economic spectrum — a group that included tech billionaires, hedge fund managers, and the ultrawealthy, many with direct access to the...

In 2020, I began asking questions I was not supposed to ask and noticing things I wasn’t supposed to notice. I was an establishment liberal, a “good soldier” for the Left. Right about now, I’d be that person on X with the Ukraine flag, the mask, the vax, and the pronouns in my bio. But my problem is that I am an internet person. I got online in 1994 and never left. I have been running my own website since 1999. I remember when the internet was free and its objectives when it began. I also remember how things were...

It used to be that 90% of the time, you accessed stuff only on your computer’s local network. Then in 1993 at the University of Illinois, Marc Andreessen developed Mosaic, the first internet browser, which allowed users to wander around the World Wide Web 90% of the time. He moved to Silicon Valley and founded Netscape. Mr. Andreessen is now a general partner at a top-decile venture-capital firm, better than 90% of its peers. Andreessen Horowitz recently raised $9 billion in new funds.

Facebook funder and Netscape co-founder says he is putting his money behind Mitt Romney.From Google to Facebook to Apple, the Silicon Valley has a long reputation for leaning left. But one man behind the scenes of several of the valley's most successful companies is tilting the other way. Netscape founder and tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen said he is putting his financial support behind Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in an interview with CNBC. "I turned 40 last year and so I figured it was time to make the switch," the Andreessen-Horowitz co-founder said. He said he previously supported Bill Clinton...

This is a fascinating, wide-ranging interview with Marc Andreessen, who has some advice for the newspaper giants: stop the print editions and take one year of acute pain, rather than suffer through years of chronic pain, bleeding the companies dry. He notes that papers like the New York Times are 90% focused on the dying print edition and only 10% on the web editions and though management is thrashing around trying to save a dead business model, their investors have already discounted the price of the stock to the 10% of the company that has any value.