Enterprise capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities together with Stanford and MIT, together with the Nationwide Science Basis, in a bunch chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officers, in accordance with screenshots seen by the Washington Put up.
In response to the Put up, Andreessen described MIT and Stanford (which I attended twenty years in the past) as “primarily political lobbying operations combating American innovation.” He additionally reportedly complained that Stanford “pressured my spouse out [as chair of its Center on Philanthropy and Civil society] with no second thought, a call that can value them one thing like $5 billion in future donations.”
In a separate message that didn’t point out a selected college, Andreessen reportedly stated that universities “declared conflict on 70% of the nation and now they’re going to pay the value.” He took intention at “DEI and immigration,” which he reportedly described as “two types of discrimination” which are “politically deadly.”
Final yr, Andreessen and his Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz each stated that they had been supporting Donald Trump’s marketing campaign to return to the White Home. Andreessen’s allies have subsequently taken roles within the Trump administration.
TechCrunch has reached out to a16z for remark. In the meantime, Sequoia Capital has remained silent following accomplice Shaun Maguire’s criticism of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York Metropolis mayor, as an “Islamist” who “comes from a tradition that lies about every part.”
