Austin Carr

Features writer at @BW @business @technology
Signal: acarr.54

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

NEW @BW caper about the Microsoft engineer who stole 152,000 Xbox gift cards + was living off the proceeds in a $1.6 million home with plans to buy a ski chalet, yacht, and seaplane
https://t.co/qA805mDq3D

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

@ranjanxroy @buccocapital @alexanderao My daughter insists on wearing this shirt at least 3x per week. No rival candidate can compete with the Kowloon political machine.

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

@tamarawinter Very possible I was the one outbidding you on eBay : )

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

@itsreallyvivek In fairness, he did say the commute to Prof. Lambeau's office was killing him.

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

Not suggesting she misquoted, but it's hard to imagine throwing out a notebook that contains interview notes with someone like Elizabeth Holmes (even if it's part of a routine practice of discarding source notes). Also odd to say turning off recorder was necessary for candor on beach walk...you don't have to jam a recorder in someone's face to capture audio...I mean, walking with a recorder casually at your side in your hand with your notebook is a way more relaxed posture than furiously scribbling notes while strolling in sand. Amy's explanation here raises more questions than it answers, unfortunately.

Excited for what you're doing with Backstory, but feels like it'll only work if you press journalists as forcefully as we do our subjects.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Profile of Marc Andreessen, who seems to be driven by grievance and anger, which are fuelled by stories that are completely made up according to those who knew him and those who witnessed alleged events. https://t.co/URSDmRoRKl

[Brad Stone @BradStone]

Here's the most insightful story yet on Marc Andreesen aka @pmarca - his legendary career as an investor and entrepreneur, and his long strange history of concocted grudges. by @AustinCarr in @BW.

gift link: https://t.co/To1xKzuzPM

[Meghan Bobrowsky @MeghanBobrowsky]

"Once, a magazine intern haplessly emailed a fact-checking request to a16z's communications team asking for confirmation that Andreessen's head was indeed shaped like an egg."

From the excellent @AustinCarr profile of Marc Andreessen

https://t.co/TwkEFeHGGX

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

great @AustinCarr piece with amazing pics and multimedia https://t.co/QzaSzchgOa

[Natasha Mascarenhas @nmasc_]

Every word of this @AustinCarr profile on Marc Andreessen (and his anger) is important.

He scoured bar bathrooms in Wisconsin and got inside secretive meetings in Jackson Hole and D.C. to explain the political evolution of Silicon Valley’s most famous dealmaker

Read his @BW story here

https://t.co/uthLXe5w0n

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

@workinwithwords @BradStone @pmarca @BW Here ya go: https://t.co/k6fuiiH11M

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

In trying to decode Marc for this story, I ended up stumbling across some of the earliest BASIC code from a 14-year-old @pmarca

I punched the string into a TRS-80 simulator, and voila, one of the first Andreeessen-backed apps:

[Brad Stone @BradStone]

Here's the most insightful story yet on Marc Andreesen aka @pmarca - his legendary career as an investor and entrepreneur, and his long strange history of concocted grudges. by @AustinCarr in @BW.

gift link: https://t.co/To1xKzuzPM

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

@mims @chafkin Some real eye rolls about that mythical NY-er anecdote among locals 🪵🪓

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

h/t @nitashatiku for her WaPo scoop on Marc's leaked texts last year about how his people from Wisconsin "are furious and not going to take it anymore"

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

I find it fascinating that Marc recently called for the National Science Foundation to receive the "bureaucratic death penalty," despite that same @NSF enabling Andreessen to study mathematical modeling as a kid in rural Wisconsin

[Max Chafkin @chafkin]

My fave part of this @AustinCarr story is the evidently complicated relationship Marc Andreessen has with being from Wisconsin (gift link) https://t.co/cwQGU7NwOy

[Techmeme @Techmeme]

A profile of Marc Andreessen, who sources say is close to White House COS Susie Wiles and has publicly described a fallout with Biden officials over AI policy (@austincarr / Bloomberg)

(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

Spent a long time on this @pmarca profile for @BW, especially where he grew up in Wisconsin.

Marc Andreessen has a complicated relationship with his hometown, but I discovered another (touching) side of his childhood that has never been told:
https://t.co/akBvIif9yK

[Bloomberg @business]

The famous investor Marc Andreessen has said the Biden administration pushed him to the political right, but sources say his grievances don't always match reality. https://t.co/WKIU8mGCIG

[Bloomberg @business]

Can smart torpedoes be as important in the Straight of Hormuz as small drones have been in Ukraine? https://t.co/UXDlUUzmAB

[Austin Carr @AustinCarr]

@athyuttamre @chrisalbon Would soooo love if there was a way to remove the Diction button...I'm forever hitting wrong one, and always found it confusing the mic icon leads to waveform-glyph recording, whereas waveform icon leads to live-voice mode yet keeps the mic icon displayed! 🙃

[Bloomberg @business]

Julian Hoenig helped design the Apple Watch and worked on that company’s car project. Now he’s reimagining the golf cart https://t.co/JPgZPmC6Fv