A16z Spends $1.49m in Washington Lobbying, While Rivals Mostly Sit Out
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a16z has 60 billion AUM. $560k vs $1.47mm is completely meaningless, yet it seems like most of the time I'm reading these stories, the huge multinational consortium lobbying fees can be counted in increments of $500k/15 minutes of income.
Granted, that has changed recently with more traditional style international bribing, but the uniquely American lobbying angle has always bewildered me a bit.
Presumably, most of the transactional value is contained in connections and relationships which can't quantified, and the actual "lobbying fees" are performative bowties.