New Tech
Friday, 8/21, 03:57 PM
The DOJ is testing a 1914 antitrust law against the way venture capital actually works
- The Justice Department has spent nearly a year examining whether Andreessen Horowitz breached Section 8 of the Clayton Act by holding board seats at two companies that now compete.
- Ben Horowitz sits on the board of Databricks, valued at $190 billion; his partner Martin Casado sits on the board of Fivetran.
- When they took those seats, the two companies were not rivals.