Marc L. Andreessen — Board Member Accountability Profile
Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director; cross-board profile Role: Director, Meta Platforms Inc. (META) and Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN) Board Tenure: Meta: 2008 – present; Coinbase: 2020 – present Committee Memberships: Meta: Risk & Strategy Committee; Coinbase: Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership); cross-board profile
Basis for Inclusion: Marc L. Andreessen holds documented governance roles on both Meta Platforms Inc. and Coinbase Global Inc. — two companies with corporate donor profiles in the Patriot University accountability knowledgebase. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Andreessen’s venture capital firm, made significant financial contributions to Trump-aligned political vehicles in 2024, and Andreessen himself became a prominent public supporter of Trump in the 2024 election cycle. This cross-board profile is consolidated per Patriot University’s deduplication rule for individuals serving on multiple donor company boards. This profile documents the factual governance relationships, not the subject’s views.
Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director; Limited-Purpose Public Figure for the specific controversy of personal public political engagement in the 2024 election cycle and concurrent board roles at politically active technology companies.
What is NOT the basis for inclusion: Andreessen’s personal political opinions, party affiliation, or general speech are NOT independently the basis for inclusion. The basis is the documented directorial roles at two politically active corporations and the documented governance accountability this creates.
Biographical Overview
Marc Lowell Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is the co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), founded in 2009, which has grown into one of the most influential venture capital firms in history with over $35 billion in assets under management. He previously co-founded Netscape Communications Corporation (1994), the browser company that launched the commercial web, and Loudcloud/Opsware, a cloud computing pioneer acquired by HP in 2007. He served briefly as CTO of AOL.
Andreessen became a vocal public supporter of Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential cycle, along with a16z partner Ben Horowitz, and appeared publicly at Trump campaign events. Andreessen Horowitz donated to Trump-aligned political vehicles. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
He has been on the Meta board since 2008, one year before a16z’s founding, and joined the Coinbase board in 2020, where a16z is one of Coinbase’s earliest and largest institutional investors.
Board Roles and Governance Authority
Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META):
- Board tenure: 2008 – present
- Committee assignments: Risk & Strategy Committee
Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN):
- Board tenure: 2020 – present
- Committee assignments: Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee
- Note: a16z is among Coinbase’s founding investors
Other Current Board Memberships
- Samsara Inc. (NYSE: IOT)
- Confirm via SEC EDGAR for additional concurrent public company board seats
Parent Corporate Donor Profiles
This is a cross-board profile linking two corporate donor accountability profiles:
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Investigative trail pointers (public records)
Education only — verify independently. Absence of hits is not proof.
| Channel | Starting points |
|---|---|
| Federal courts | CourtListener / PACER party and attorney searches (spelling variants) |
| Campaign finance | FEC + OpenSecrets for committees and donors tied to documented roles |
| Corporate / LLC | State secretary of state; OpenCorporates for cross-border shells from reporting |
| Sanctions / PEP | OpenSanctions when international business context is already sourced |
| Contracts / grants | USAspending.gov for named entities from investigations |
Use public-records-research-specialist, corporate-intelligence-investigator, and public-corruption-ombudsman evidence tiers.
Sources
- Meta Platforms Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, filed April 16, 2026; SEC EDGAR (CIK 1326801)
- Coinbase Global Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, filed April 25, 2025; SEC EDGAR (CIK 1679788)