The Counterintel Sweep of Silicon Valley is Underway
If you want the contracts you've got to do the work and you've got to listen...
I had initially thought about replying to Marc Andreessen’s absurd blog post about the future but really what’s the point? In some sense this is a category error — to treat the Peter Thiels, Marc Andressens, Michael Moritzes of the world as if they are some sort of oracles is to miss what’s really going on geopolitically.
The truth is that Andreessen is a construct. He’s not some deep thinker. He’s a fraud. But at least he’s not a Chisraeli spy like Ben Horowitz so there’s that.
He’s not the future. This isn’t the future. It never will be.
Nor are the visits to Saudi Arabia asking for shekels going to work. The Saudis want quality and they deserve allies who treat them as partners not ATMs. Only with the Gulf States will we be able to achieve the energy transition.
It’s not like you weren’t invited. You just didn’t know who you were talking to. Well now you know. I wasn’t the help.
I’ve tried reaching out to David Ulevitch who runs American Dynamism. He’ll text but you try getting him to sit down. It’s impossible.
I’ve tried talking to Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen who once called Clearview one of the most impressive technologies he’d ever seen. But won’t return my calls after I called him out for telling another VC about a tech deal I was doing.
I’ve tried chatting to Trae Stephens who, in addition to being a fraud, worked for the very compromised George Tennet. Do you remember when you lied to the CIA about me, Trae? They do! And so do I.
Trae’s colleague of Katherine Boyle who spoke to me for an hour or so before ghosting me. I guess that’s what you get when you hire the society page gal from The Washington Post.
Then there’s Joe Lonsdale who has been a front for a lot of foreign interests for quite a long time. Joe nearly got busted for his participation in UBiome, a $300 million healthcare fraud where the founders, with great moxie and chutzpah, fled to Germany! But your law firm Gibson Dunn has the records, don’t they, Joe? Are we so sure you’re blameless there? I’m not.
What you guys didn’t realize is that I was actually spying on all of you. Sorry. I know, it’s rude.
So we’re going to step it up.
The truth is that I’m disliked in Silicon Valley because I’m the real deal. I’m American. Like the president. I compete with the Chinese and the Israelis whose tech isn’t as good as the companies I’ve backed. You work quite closely with them both, don’t you? It’s also why you copy me, or steal from me, and it’s why you fund rival tech companies. Am I right Keith?
But right now the Americans are back in command and we’re going through all the tech companies deciding what can be salvaged — and what needs a stake through their heart.
You can play along at home, too, dear reader.
In fact we need all the help we can get from the public and insiders.
Who are they? Draw out a family free and look for anything suspicious. Who are their parents? What did they do for work? What’s the deal with their husbands or girlfriends?
What is the technology? Does it, you know, actually work? Will they submit to the National Institute of Standards and Technology for review? Why not?
Or is it, like Web3 and #DefenseTech and Cyber, just a way of paying off assets?
How often do they go to meaningless conferences to grift of our tax base?
We’re further down the road than you think. It’s time to come correct.
There isn’t a way you can tweet your way out of this one.
Or as I put it to Peter Thiel when I recruited him, “Join up or get crushed.”