It Could Happen Here - Venture Capital: The Monster Fueling Tech Fascism

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

Mia talks with Shanley from the anti-tech fascism resource vcinfodocs about the venture capital firms backing everything from cryptocurrency to drone manufacturers. https://www.vcinfodocs.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Also, Media. Welcome to It Could Happen to Here. a podcast frequently about the horrifying tech ghouls, and in this case, venture capital ghouls who are plotting to take over the United States and have already made your lives significantly worse. I am your host, Mia Wong. And with me today, I'm very, very excited about this. To talk about the forces of venture capital and how they're ruining our lives is Shaneley, who was one of the people who puts together the website VC Info Docs, which I really cannot recommend enough. It is the most comprehensive compiled source of information on these venture capital

firms and the network state and all the things that I've been talking about that I've ever encountered. It was a very significant source for the episodes that I did about abundance. Cheneley, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. This is actually the first podcast I've ever done. So thank you. I feel very special. So it's great. It's going to to be, it's good to be here with you. Yeah. Do you want to talk a little bit about your work and about your time confronting the sort of Leviathan of venture capital? Yeah, absolutely. So I actually used to work in the tech industry. It feels like a lifetime ago. But I remember when I first started encountering venture capital, like I knew in my body and my heart and my soul that something was terribly wrong with this

situation. And so I started following that down, you know, over the course of years. And now I've been doing it for about 13 years at different times. I've been more of an activist. I ran a tech critical magazine at one point. And now I really do a bunch of research and work with other researchers around the world to try to bring as much serious and material information about venture capital and what we're facing as possible. and put it in people's hands who can do something about it. Yeah, and those hands are amazingly, you the listener. You, dear listener, can be one of the people who helps end these people's reign over the world. Absolutely.

So, all right, I think the place that we should start is, I think when people think about, and this is something that you have talked about, when people think about sort of venture capital and tech and the wave that they're trying to take over the country, there is this myopic focus on Peter Thiel and Yarven Curtis because they are these sort of almost semi-mythological at this point figures who have a bunch of really, really unhinged beliefs and love talking about them constantly. Yes, 100%. It almost turns into a circus. Like, look at these freaks.

Like, look at these, like, three freaks that then get sort of obsessively focused on. Sam Altman is one of those. Peter Thiel is one of those. Curtis Yarven is one of those. And it kind of ends up being, people are looking at this through the lens of individuals, through the lens of sort of these cults of personalities that are being created. They're relating to this issue through sort of like individual players in the environment. And that's actually very limiting when we're talking about a system that consists. of trillions of dollars, hundreds of venture capital firms, thousands and thousands and thousands of startups,

and all of the financial structures that are around them. So it has this effect of almost minimizing what's happening. Yeah. And also kind of diverting something so serious into something that is kind of like, well, we can just make fun of them, and that's going to do something, and that's activism.

The reality is they think that we are lab rats. Yeah. They do not care what we think about them. So having this very like, we're going to call them stupid, we're going to call them dumb, we're going to make fun of them, we're going to do whatever, that becomes the dominant form of critique. And that takes us way off course of what's actually happening. Yeah.

It's like, it's a kind of like great man theory of venture capital. Yes. Yeah. And this isn't a situation. where it's like, you know, you're looking at like Napoleon history on horseback stuff, and you're debating whether, and, okay, to what extent is this like the great man, and to what extent this is like the structural forces of history. This is a situation where, like, we're looking at a structural force, and everyone is,

like, looking at the clown they've stuck on top of the structural force. And it's like, no, no, no, no. We got to understand the actual structures here, which I think you've done maybe the best job I've ever seen and actually looking at what we're dealing with, which is these network works, hundreds of venture capital firms and startups and, yeah, this entire sort of ecosystem that has become a sort of force of history. Yes, 100%. And that's where the conversation needs to go is towards like, what are we actually dealing with? Like, what are we actually facing? And what are the causes of that? So I always like to start.

was sort of talking about, you know, what are some of the core dynamics that are happening within venture capital? One of them is that venture capitalists act as a central coordinator of this giant machinery of startups and technological development and infrastructure. So one thing I often say is, like, you might be looking at like 15 different startups, and that's all the same thing. Yeah. You're even looking at five different VC firms. That is all the same thing.

It is a cartel that it has a central financial backbone that is generating companies at an incredible speed with incredible efficiency. They are machines for turning out these startups, which they're then able to orchestrate to work together. And that becomes just a profound force and a very efficient force in changing the world, in interacting with the world. And as we increasingly see, you know, impacting geopolitics. So for people like me who are fortunate enough to not sort of live inside one of these people's center of power, which is, you know, like places like the Bay or like these places where these concentrations of tech capital have fundamentally reshaped. the world to the extent that it feels just being in one of these places feels so different

than being in a place that's not like a tech capital center. For those of us who aren't living as much under the eye of the Panopticon, can you explain a little bit about what venture capital is? Yes. And then what the effect on sort of the tech sector that it's had has been? Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, venture capital, essentially what it does. It takes in capital from around the world. And one of the interesting things about venture capital is like, we do not have a lot of visibility into where their money is coming from. We know some things about them, but we do not get a list of like, here's everyone who's giving us money. So we have all this money coming in. And then on the outside of that, weapons companies are coming out. Yeah.

And crypto companies are coming out. And, you know, drone companies coming out. Nuclear energy companies are coming out. So you sort of have this like, it's almost like a black box where unknown money goes in. And then all of this shit comes out the other side. And that becomes really scary when you start to look at things like, we know that Israel is funding many venture capital firms in the U.S. And those venture capital firms are turning out dozens and dozens of weapons companies. And then those weapons companies are going to Israel and being used in the genocide.

So you have these very sort of complex relationships going on between like the investors, between other nations and what venture capital is doing. One of the things that this reminds me of is, this is something we've talked about on this show to some extent. but one of the major forces that kind of reshaped the latter half of the 20th century was after the sort of oil shocks where, you know, you have all of these countries, like you have countries like Saudi Arabia, like the Gulf monarchies who are like very intimately tied to all of these, all of these venture capital firms are suddenly just flush with oil money. And they have this problem, which is that, okay, we have all of these piles of money,

but this money is capital, right? And capital wants to be turned into more and increasing amounts of capital. But how do you do that? Like, where do you actually put this money in an economy where, you know, like this is the context of the 70s where like output everywhere is decreasing and like the returns on capital or falling and, you know, the long range rate of returns collapsing? What do you do with it? And in the 70s, the thing that they did with it was they put it into like third world debt. And this is like why the term third world is a slur. now when it used to be a political movement is that, you know, these countries took all of these what were adjustable interest rate loans. And then when the interest rate went to like 200% or whatever,

they got completely annihilated. And some of that capital went to weapons because weapons are a thing that you can put capital into that destroys capital. And also, you know, it lets, you know, it lets like Saudi, like, the Saudi, like, monarchy stay in power. But it's also a thing where, like, you don't have to find a way to make money with that capital. you could just buy a bunch of like jet fighters in the U.S., which do nothing, but you spent your money on something? 100%. And I think to that point specifically, Saudi Arabia, one of the main reasons what's happening in venture capital now is because Saudi Arabia is trying to diversify its wealth outside of oil. And they want a globally competitive technology industry.

So they're going to turn to the people who can. can give them that. And that is venture capital and that is tech companies in America. There's sort of this race happening all over the world of countries trying to make sure that they're able to compete or at least exist on the technological plane of what's being developed. And that makes venture capital almost like the crown jewel now that everyone is trying to get a hold of. So now they have this this huge leverage. And you hear them, they hang out with MBS. They sing the praises of MBS, you know, to the heavens. And they have done a lot of work to quote, unquote, repair the image of MBS, particularly after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi,

who was a huge major journalist. And for a time, that cooled relations between Saudi Arabian than your capital at least on the surface. Yeah. But they don't care about that stuff, you know.

Yeah. And, you know, and I think the other part of that campaign too, and this is just one of my Mia on the soapbox things is that the other thing they were trying to get

of one to forget about was the hideous, hideous war that all of the Gulf states, particularly Saudi Arabia, but also the UAE has a massive part in this we're fighting in Yemen,

where they, we literally don't know how many people they killed like they tried they tried to do a starvation genocide of the whole country because they couldn't win the war militarily. They were deploying Sudanese child soldiers as mercenaries who had been taken from the Jawalade, the group who's now like doing a genocide in Sudan. They were also people who did the genocide in Darfur back in the 2000s. Like this is like the scale of atrocity that they're committing. You know, everyone's very focused on Chal Khashoggi.

It's like, yeah, it's very, very bad obviously to like kill journalists and like cut them up with bone saw. Like, these are people who were doing airstrikes on school buses. No. These are people who were, again, deploying Sudanese, the child soldiers on battlefields. And these people are going, no, fuck it. Not only are we going to rehabilitate their image, we're going to take their money and we're going to build them fucking weapons forever. Yeah.

You know, when you talk about, like, what is a venture capitalist? And one of the things that they really do is they are, like, constructing an entire markets. They're not just, they're not just creating a, startup, hoping it succeeds. And then the case of the military, you know, people focus on Anderl. They have hundreds of weapons companies now. Hundreds of weapons companies. And they have the big prime companies like Anderl that are really like the power houses that are supposed to be like Lockheed and Raytheon. But they also have weapons part manufacturers. They have drone companies is for like all layers of earth, sea, you know, air, everything like that.

They're doing hypersonic missiles. They've advocated for a new Manhattan project. They're working on developing weapons of mass destruction. So when Venture Capital is going into these spaces, like they are going in to win. They're going in with a fully envisioned picture of what the new age military looks like with AI technologies, with autonomous technologies, you know, with everything that they've been able to develop. And now they have a fully featured war platform that they have to try to get other countries to buy because it's ready. Yeah.

So they need wars. Which is extremely bad news for everyone on Earth. Everybody. Yes. Everyone on Earth. And, you know, they have been so deeply complicit in the genocide. of Palestinians. They are so incredibly enmeshed with Israel. Venture capitalists refer to Israel as a technocratic state and as sort of like the ideal state and in a model for what they can be as a

technocratic state. Because Israel by proportion, the share of tech GDP in Israel is actually twice as much as in the U.S. Jesus. And as parts of the Israeli economy have suffered as a result of the genocide, the tech industry is doing amazing. Yeah. And venture capitalists are pouring money into it. And so you see that one of the immediate things that has come out of, you know, the Israel-American VC relationship is the genocide and is the ongoing. development of themselves and of Israel's the technocratic state.

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So I think I want to zoom out a little bit. We've talked a bit about what these companies do. Do you want to talk about some of the major firms that are building all of these things and building all of these startups that people haven't heard about and need you know about? Yeah, 100%. So people have heard about Andreessen Horowitz, but not enough. Yeah. Definitely not enough. If I had to put a firm that is the most responsive. for what's going on. It is definitely Andresen Horowitz. One of the things that's happening in the venture capital market, why this is happening is because a small number of firms is forming a monopoly on venture capital. And Andreessen Horowitz is right there. And in fact, in 2025,

Drason Horowitz raised over 18% of all venture capital dollars, just that one firm. Okay. So now you start adding that up, the other firms that they work most closely with and are working on the exact same things and fund the exact same startups. Founders Fund, Peter Teal's firm is one of those General Catalyst is another one that's very, very important. And General Catalyst looks a lot like Andreessen Horowitz. They are very close. And you see this throughout, like you're like, you have different names on your offices, but y'all are the same thing. Sequoia is another big one. They were one of the early venture capital firms. They did not make their first defense investment until 2023, but they were founded in 1972. So this is an example of how a giant VC firm has really been

yoked to an agenda that started in sort of these other like younger ups and, start players. And Andreessen Hora-Rois has talked about how ultimately venture capital will consist of four or five major firms and then basically no mid-sized firms and then some sort of boutiquey firms that are a little bit more specialized. So in that kind of category, we have firms like Lux Capital. Lux Capital is one of the most bloodthirsty, sociopathic, Zionist, weird biotech shit, weird weapons shit, out and out, bloodthirsty extremists, like just openly, maybe one of the most in that sense. They're incredibly Zionists, and they are a relatively small firm,

but they're able to be in the mix because they have this sociopathy, this bloodlust that you actually see across all of these firms is that, like, they're sort of, like, outright sadistic at a certain point, you know, andresen Horowitz actually hired Daniel Penny, who killed Jordan Neely, who was a 30-year-old, you know, black homeless man. And this guy was not a venture capitalist. and Mark Andresen hired him. There's a degradation and morality, and there's sort of this, like, welling up in the venture capital space

of this, like, extremely depraved, like, anti-morality where they hired this murderer. Yeah. You know, someone who killed a black man. Yeah. And made press releases about it, and they talk about what a great VC he is. And so they're immersed in this like, this like culture of sort of of war and like genocide and like killing.

So super disturbing. So any. Great things happening here. Most powerful people in the world. Yeah. Really bad. It's a moral free fall for sure. So, so yeah, you have that type of stuff going on.

But, you know, Lux Capital. we talked about that. You have Eric Schmidt, who's the Google CEO. He runs a number of sort of smaller scale venture capital firms. And then you have some of the major crypto firms, like Ribbett Capital, Paradigm, Blockchain Capital, and actually Blockchain Capital, which runs a crypto cartel is an investor in Blue Sky. Oh, fun. So everyone who thinks, so everyone who's thinking that, you know, Blue Sky is this wonderful, alternative, like, Blue Sky is owned by venture capitalists who are running a crypto cartel. So those are some of those firms. And, you know, you have Y Combinator, which is a smaller

firm feeding in. Then you have some other kind of pieces outside that. One that's super important is, and this is always tough for me and talk about because people look at you, like you're a conspiracy theorist, if you say anything about the CIA, even if it's 100 percent true. But the CIA made a venture capital firm many, many years ago, and that venture capital firm is called Incutal. And they have funded over 800 startups. Amazing.

Incredible stuff. Also, the fact that they called it InQTel is just like, oh, my God. Come on. Like, yeah, we're just going to put Intel in the name of it, but we're going to put into like Incutel, because fuck you. God. It's like cuty spy bullshit. Yes.

It's totally wild. Oh. And I always tell this story. You know, I worked at startups in Silicon Valley. I worked in database startups, uh, internet infrastructure, APIs, like, you know, infrastructure service, stuff like that. I went to a big data conference and like, maybe like 2012 or something like that. I don't say, I don't know for sure which one it was, but it was in New York.

There was all these companies there. One of the keynote speakers was the chief technology officer of the CIA. Jesus Christ. Yeah. So none of this has been a secret to people in the industry. The CIA operates openly in the industry and invests openly in the industry. Yeah. But he got on stage and he said,

our goal is to collect all of the data in the world and save it forever. Yep. And I looked around me to see if anyone else was, and this was months before the, the Soda and Revelations. Yeah. So this year I was openly admitting to all, you know, all of this stuff anyways. But point being, you know, and Incutal has been so key to this because they have brought all of the venture capital startups into the government, into intelligence and into

defense. From the CIA's perspective, this has also given them a revenue source and a way to operate outside of just the government budget. And we can go back to this when we're talking about the network state because what the CIA is really good at is cooing in other countries. And now you see the network state down in Latin America, trying to kill governments down there. So there's been an incredible fusion of this CIA with venture capital that has transformed both of them. They are both changed by this.

Yeah, it's like tech is the new like running opium out of like Vietnam or whatever. It's like we've replaced doing like really overt drug running shit to fuel our operations with, oh, hey, we can just get on stage and, like, talk to all of these venture capital goals and get a bunch of money that way for, like, whatever weird shit we want to be up to. Yeah, it's wild. So you have that. And then another piece of it is that venture capital has formed this incredibly close

relationship with Black Rock and Blackstone. So they have a traditional finance backing. Can you explain for people who are not familiar what Black Rock and Blackstone are and that I can tell my completely deranged Blackstone story? Okay. So, yes, Black Rock is a giant, you know, financial beast, a monster monstrosity. Yeah. I don't have the most up-to-date numbers on how much money that they manage, but as of, you. 2025, it was over $12 trillion in assets under management. Jesus Christ.

So you are talking about a absolutely, you know, huge, huge financial entity. So they have been one of the first to really back venture capital in the traditional finance world in crypto. So they are the ones that started bringing to market the ETFs that made it. easy to invest in in Bitcoin. They have ETFs that are trading. They also have one for Ethereum. Can you explain what an ETF is? Yes, what an ETF is. It's basically, you know, what it does for crypto is instead of having to buy and manage your own crypto assets, the financial institution basically takes on the administration and management of those underlying assets.

So, you know, for investors who don't want to be on Coinbase, you know, buying from these, like, sketchy companies, these were ways to make these assets available to the investment market. And crypto really needed that. And Black Rock came in to do that. And they partnered with Coinbase. And they partnered with other, you know, venture capital things. So they did the VC is a big solid there. And then to our point, like, they are very invested with the Saudis as well,

partnered with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. Yep. You know, the leading to weapons deals. They're also doing a bunch of data centers in the UK. And they've been operating in Israel for a really long time. So, you know, this was a very natural partner, I would say, for venture capital. But it also gives venture capital a lot. Like, venture capital has gotten a lot out of this deal.

Yeah. So you have that start to happen. And one question I've always asked is like to crypto people who have said like this is the way around the banks and blah, blah, blah. Well, why is Wall Street getting crypto before you? Yeah. It really truly not. It does not really seem to be doing that. It's not.

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is and what purpose crypto serves for them? Yes. Can you get into that? Yeah, so crypto, one of my absolute favorite topics to talk about, there are a lot of ways of looking at this. One of the ones that I find most interesting is when the first,

first sort of dot-com bubble happened and when they first started making absolute fuck tons of money. So they have tons of money coming in. They're making tons of money. And they are putting that money in banks they don't own and financial infrastructure they don't own and they're paying a lot of taxes on it. So at some point the decision is made by that. like why would you want to make so much money and then have that money going right out the door to a bunch of bankers who are going to take all your money? So at some point, it occurs to them

all of this money that's transacting not just through us, but over the internet overall, is something we can make a ton of money on. And one of, you know, one of Mark Andreessen's first things was trying to get internet credit card payments working over the browser. And then you have PayPal. So at the point that they sort of were like, we're going to do our own financial infrastructure. Okay, now they have a financial infrastructure that is literally in competition with the sovereign financial system of the United States of America. And this more than anything else might be the source of the rupture.

between the American government and between venture capital, because as soon as you start developing this ecosystem, and people think that crypto is just like Bitcoin and like Dogecoin and like Ethereum. No, no, no, no. These people have a whole bunch of banks. They have banks. They are developing stock markets and stock exchanges. They have point of sale systems.

they have betting markets. Oh, God, crypto betting markets. Oh, no. Yeah, they've got me. They have, you know, they have loans programs. They have savings. They have blah, blah, blah. Like, crypto is really a very fully featured financial system.

And they need to get as much money out of the existing financial system moved into their financial system. So they are in this war, essentially, over that. And that's what we're looking at is the global financial system being replaced with a financial system that is owning and trolled by venture capitalists. And that's a profound thing that has profound implications. We're going to talk about the network state more. But another reason why the network state has happened is because as the crypto market really kind of started to take off, they decided, we don't want to pay taxes on this.

Yeah. We did this all by ourselves. And one of the things the network state is, it is a series of global tax shelters and tax evasion zones all over the world because they knew that they were striking gold and they wanted to make sure they get it out of having to pay it to the IRS and having to pay it to the people in this country and other countries. Yeah. And then, you know, like, the more control you can get over, like, what there is of the American state, the more you can just be like, hey, look, we're just going to not ever look into the fact that there's all this tax evasion shit going on.

You can just, like, use our control of, like, Vance and, you know, like our control of levers of the state to make sure that, like, we're just allowed to do this. Yeah, 100%. You know, it also goes back to, like what are the root sort of causes of tech fascism or whatever you would like to call them. And one of the big reasons for that is because as venture capital itself is diversified and it's moving into finance and it's moving into medicine and it's moving into land and it's moving into energy, there are existing monopolies in every single part of those markets that they have to fight in order to get into them. And they've openly talked about this.

So when they're entering these markets, they're going to war with existing monopolies in order to create their own monopolies. And that's forced them to these really like sort of extreme and perverse strategies, like, we're going to care the U.S. government. Like, you know. Yeah. God. And they've been really successful at that.

So they work hard. Everyone's like, they're lazy. they don't do anything, they're not smart, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, Mark Andresen works like the devil. He does not take a day off. He is not taking it. Unfortunately. So the story here, I think, is one of these companies getting, you know,

heavily invested into the defense sector, heavily invested into building their own sort of financial system, like to some except building links with the major, financial powers that already exists and to some extent, you know, like combating the powers that they want that are like monopolizing the places where they want to expand into. But there's also a global strategy here. That's all kind of like a part of this larger plan. And I'm wondering if you could talk a little bit about that before we go much deeper into a next episode. Yes, absolutely. So, you know, I think what we've talked about so far is we're looking at like kind of root causes,

dynamics, new markets they're going into. And the next sort of stage of thinking about that is like what what demands and what global program and strategy comes out of sort of their needs for capital, for returns, for expansion, for fighting monopolies, for tax evasion, everything like that. And what they've come up with and what we can already see is really like a global playbook for how they're going to do that. And this is about running everything in the world as venture capital firms and their startups,

including the government. So what is happening in America is the venture capitalists are trying to replace the government with venture capital firms and their startups who are operating the state that can be done everywhere. They want global deregulation. They want global suspension of taxes.

All over the world, they're going to bolster techno-fascist-aligned right-wing politicians. We already see this with Buckele, with Malay. They're going to do the interference in elections, the lobbying, the bribery, social media manipulation, everything that they need to do to make sure they get politicians all over the place who are going to take their orders. As we discuss, like, we're placing the global economic system with the crypto financial system. And then these mega projects, the data centers, the new cities, in order to feed all of their data centers and all of their new factories and their new manufacturing, we're headed for a new age of resource extraction where they're literally already going all over the world with AI mining companies to find lithium, uranium, and cobalt. They need to rearm all of Europe. They need to recolonize Latin American Africa.

they need to suppress leftism and communism globally. And, you know, ultimately this all unfolds within a war with China because that's what's waiting for them at the end of this thing. And once you have all these things in place, you're looking at the rise of the technofascist civilization, which is the network state, which we are going to talk about. in our next episode, it sounds like. Yep.

So you can look forward to, oh, God, the global systemic tech, fascist state. Yes. Tomorrow. Oh, God. Okay. Shadley, where can people find your work and more information about this? Yes.

Please check out the research site. It's Vc.info. Docs.com and like please help us get this information out there because people all over the world need to know stuff and to know what's hitting them particularly as this affects other countries. And you know, we really need people who can activate around this information and make sure when we show up and we build our resistance that like that resistance is not designed to take down Curtis Jarvin. Yeah.

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