Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz has hired Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran who became a national figure after he used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider.

Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger to death, will work for Andreessen Horowitz. Before the killing, he had been an architecture student.

Powerhouse venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired Daniel Penny as an investor, its web page confirms.  Penny is the former Marine who was tried last

Daniel Penny has reportedly landed a role in venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz a little less than two months after he was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide pertaining to the chokehold death of 30-year-old homeless man Jordan Neely in 2023.

I believe, as I know many of you do, that Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation. He was acquitted of all charges’, read a memo from the firms’ general partner