Over the last few years, VC Ben Horowitz has donated at least $7.6 million to fund police department purchases – including the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s new drones from a16z-backed Skydio. Skydio is not the first of a16z’s portfolio companies to benefit from these donations, either.
Kirsten Korosec, Devin Coldewey and Margaux MacColl dig into the implications of Horowitz’s approach and why others in the VC world should maybe hold off on praising the controversial move
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