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Marc Andreessen reportedly told group chat that universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI


Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities including Stanford and MIT, along with the National Science Foundation, in a group chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officials, according to screenshots viewed by the Washington Post.

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities including Stanford and MIT, along with the National Science Foundation, in a group chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officials, according to screenshots viewed by the Washington Post. According to the Post, Andreessen described MIT and Stanford (which I attended two decades ago) as “mainly political operations fighting American innovation.” He also reportedly complained that Stanford “forced my wife out [as chair of its Center on Philanthropy and Civil society] without a second thought, a decision that will cost them something like $5 billion in future donations.” Meanwhile, Sequoia Capital has remained silent following partner Shaun Maguire’s criticism of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, as an “Islamist” who “comes from a culture that lies about everything.”

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