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Erik Torenberg

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Erik Torenberg

@eriktorenberg

General Partner @a16z. Positive-sum. Striving for a thousand year heart.

eriktorenberg.com

Born February 13

Joined June 2013

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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Apr 20
Thrilled to announce our investment in MTS. Beginning today, MTS will be monitoring the situation across technology, business, politics, and culture, interviewing the main characters of the moment all day long on X. We’re seeding it alongside other angel investors such as Dan
MTS
@MTSlive
Apr 20
Introducing MTS: The first timeline-native news network that's always on. Monitoring tech, finance, geopolitics and culture — as it happens. We are Live Now.
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Jul 23, 2025
Whether it's Steph Curry talking about his shot, or Tiger Woods talking about his stroke, I get chills hearing experts talking about their craft
Channel 5
@Channel5iveNews
Jul 21, 2025
Hunter Biden breaks down the difference between crack & cocaine and why crack is so addictive
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Jul 30, 2025
Nothing has worked in fixing birth rates. Financial incentives didn’t work (Hungary), Nordic socialism didn’t work (Scandinavia), restricting women’s rights didn’t work (Iran), totalitarianism didn’t work (North Korea), doing nothing didn’t work (Latin America). What will work?
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Jan 12, 2025
Stop texting me this
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Jul 10, 2024
Clooney thinking he’s the man to finally get through to Biden is a plot straight out of South Park
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Oct 13, 2025
Classic Hitler move, getting Jewish hostages released and achieving peace.
Mike Solana
@micsolana
Oct 13, 2025
if you really believe it was a genocide then you believe donald trump just ended a genocide — yes?
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Jan 2, 2023
There should be something like a Wikipedia for careers: Lists of career paths, how & what skills you'll need to break-in & rise up, how much $ you’d earn over time, lifestyle/happiness pros&cons, recommended paths based on interests & skills & personality type, case studies etc
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Nov 19, 2019
A Facebook employee who blocks FB for their kid. An Ivy League professor who has their kid homeschooled / not attend university. A VC who tells their friends to bootstrap and not take VC funding. What's the best term for this type of phenomenon?
Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Jul 26, 2025
Who architected this strategy? I want a behind the scenes video of how this whole thing was conceived, from last week until now. Genius.
Astronomer
@astronomerio
Jul 25, 2025
Thank you for your interest in Astronomer.
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Oct 7, 2025
AGI has been achieved internally. Episode dropping tomorrow.
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Sep 1, 2019
Underrated skill: taking young people seriously. Treating them w/ similar respect others will give them in a few years--or not immediately discounting them because of their age. Later on, they’ll remember who treated them well & who saw something in them before others did.
Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Jan 3, 2025
What’s the most credible theory for why there’s been a global shift to the right? Rejection of post-History globalism, open borders, Davos man? Falling birth rates?
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Apr 21, 2025
I’m excited to share that: 1.⁠ ⁠I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. 2.⁠ ⁠a16z has acquired Turpentine. Everything I’ve worked on over my career has been around investing and building products/networks/media for founders — a16z is the perfect place for me
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
Feb 29, 2020
Some of my favorite Naval Ravikant takeaways & quotes from his interviews 👇 "Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at somebody else" "Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want"