A fond goodbye to Andresen Horowitz from the UK.

Aw.

Is he not going to write any more books?

That'd be a shame.

According to documents obtained by Sifted, Andresen Horowitz's arrival was the culmination

of five years of courting by the Department of Business and Trade under the Conservative

government.

It's like, please, we actually love your extremely pointy head.

And we have, like, a team of, like, British service industry specialists who will be, like,

around to polish it all the time.

Well, we're prepared to dedicate all of the king's horses and all of the king's men to putting

you back together again.

So the VC firm announced it was closing up all of its shop in the UK, which was basically going to be because the UK was crypto friendlier under Sunak than the US was under Biden, right?

But now that Donald Trump is in office, there's no reason for there to be an Andresen Horowitz office in the UK with the founders quoted as saying, the optics mean a lot to us, particularly for your American VC.

A person familiar with the wider situation said they came here really to make a point to the

US. The US was crypto unfriendly at the time, and the UK said it was set at a regulatory roadmap.

I love to be the kind of thing that we can, we exist as a threat to Joe Biden, just to be like, listen, if you don't like it, we can, we can go to, I guess,

London. Yeah, we are like a rebound. We are a partner that exists to make me X mad. Yeah,

that's pretty cool. Yeah. So five years of just like sucking up to Sri Ram Krishna by like

Department for Business and Trade people under a Sunac, followed immediately by like Trump gets in, it's like,

okay, we love you.

Okay, bye, UK, bye.

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