Marc Andreessen, the egg-headed leader of Silicon Valley’s most infamous startup incubator, a16z, apparently can feel shame after all. Last Friday, Pope Leo posted on X (the favorite app of tech titans), encouraging leaders of technological innovation to “cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.”

And clearly, his message hit Andreessen close to home, as he quote-tweeted the Pope with an image of GQ reporter Katherine Stoeffel smirking, taken from her recent sitdown with Sydney Sweeney.

He deleted the post after getting dunked on by notable figures in the tech world who typically celebrate his trolling. One such account, Daniel (@growing_daniel), was able to land a fatal blow when he called out Andreessen for plainly stating that he “primarily funds gambling apps, cheating apps, and bot farms. He does not want you to build things that are good for society.”

Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a…

— Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex) November 7, 2025

Roon, an AI engineer at OpenAI, also jumped on Andreessen, arguing that “virtue signaling” is a lost art and claimed that Silicon Valley was better when people at least pretended they were making the world a better place.

The Pope is right, and I feel that the aging out and dying off of the original Silicon Valley pioneers, whose vision was influenced by the counterculture, has robbed the world of computing (an old phrase with more charm than “big tech”, and with a hint of the utopian about it) of… https://t.co/RVgUQet22cpic.twitter.com/pvg83retSY

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— Paul Heron (@Paul_Heron_) November 8, 2025

Pope Leo, who has turned out to be a surprisingly adept poster himself, clearly knew what he was doing and Andreessen, who considers himself a bold and bulletproof troll, fell right into his trap.

Yes, bro. He’s talking about you!