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WILL THE DOJ'S INVESTIGATION INTO A16Z SPOOK OTHER VCS?

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Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

The DOJ has spent close to a year on an antitrust probe of Andreessen Horowitz, and the subject is board seats like the ones your own investors hold. Regulators are looking at partners sitting on boards of AI companies that now compete, with Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran named as examples. If firms respond by giving up seats or declining them, board composition, information rights, and term sheets change for anyone raising now. Nobody outside the probe knows what the underlying allegations are.