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Marc Andreessen donates $250,000 to LGBTQ organizations
One of these is Lesbians Who Tech, an organization that supports and connects gay women in the tech industry through events in the US and abroad. The organization will use its $165,000 gift to launch two pilot programs. Convey a Lesbian to Serve Day will provide shadowing opportunities for gay women considering a career in tech and match them with mentors, while the Coding Scholarship Fund will help with tuition assistance for attending coding schools.
The other is Trans*H4CK, a nonprofit that hosts hackathons to create recent tech products for the trans and gender non-conforming communities. Trans*H4CK will operate its $85,000 grant to build an online hackathon space and education center to help build more apps and other tech for the transgender collective.
The Andreessens’ donation is no surprise given the tech industry’s recent attempts to spotlight LGBTQ rights. Many companies participated in San Francisco’s annual Identity festival parade over the weekend, including Apple, whose CEO, Tim Cook, published an impassioned letter about his own experience last year. Tech companies still hold a long way to go in including and hiring more membe
Marc Andreessen pitched his wife about online dating like a startup would pitch a VC
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Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, is one of the most famous and potent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.
In 2006, he married Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, daughter of real estate mogul John Arrillaga.
Many credit Arrillaga with creating the modern Silicon Valley office landscape.
According to a New Yorker profile of Andreessen, the prominent initiative capitalist met his future wife at a New Year's Eve party hosted by an investor in eHarmony.
They talked for six and a half hours, and the next day, he sent her a total of seventeen emails.
After asking her, "What's your ideal evening?" she replied, ""
Before they went on their second hang out, Andreessen delivered a speech that sounds a lot prefer a pitch a startup founder might make to an investor.
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