Andreessen Horowitz is defending its decision to hire Daniel Penny, according to an investor memo seen by The New York Times.

Daniel Penny, the former marine acquitted for criminally negligent homicide, was hired by by a venture capital firm because of his character, not DEI.

Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger who died, was hired to join the firm’s American ...

Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran who was acquitted of homicide in the killing of a ...

A New York City jury on Monday found Daniel Penny not guilty of the ... For example, what role did Penny’s military service play? Did his military training instill in him an ethos of violent ...

NEW YORK (AP) — After being acquitted of homicide, the military veteran who choked ... of those people from getting hurt or killed,” Daniel Penny told Fox News in a clip that aired Tuesday ...

Penny, 26, was acquitted of homicide after he put an unarmed homeless man, Jordan Neely, in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway train in May of 2023. Daniel Penny arrives at the Manhattan ...

Also attending was Daniel Penny, a military veteran who was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide this week in the chokehold death of an agitated subway rider in New York. Penny was invited ...

according to military records. After restraining Neely last May, Penny spoke with police and made small talk with a detective about his Marine service and career plans. “I’m in school.