Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, January 20, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today is Andries and Horwitz, about to spin up its own media platform.

Anthony Leavendowski gets a pardon and Jack Ma resurfaces.

Netflix is about to start printing money and they're about to give you a shuffle play button and why

Ben Thompson thinks Intel is even more in trouble than everybody thinks.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Is Andresen-Hoorowitz about to get into the media business and by that

I don't mean invest in a company that does media but actually become a media entity of its own.

That might be too glib a way to characterize this news, but the information is reporting that

A16Z is planning to launch an opinion section on its website that will publish

articles related to technology and business from outside contributors.

The firm currently has two editorial roles open to helm the new efforts.

It is in search of an executive editor and an opinions editor.

A recent job listing by the firm for the executive editor position

said the firm wants to

quote dramatically scale our editorial operation across coverage areas and

across mediums especially video to grow and lead a talented team of creatives

producers talent and marketers, end quote.

And recent Horowitz's editorial position

is, quote, unapologetically ProTech, pro-future, pro-change,

according to one job listing on the firm site,

quote, but we are also informed optimists,

not freewheeling futurists making predictions without any skin in the game, end quote.

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