Enterprise capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities together with Stanford and MIT, together with the Nationwide Science Basis, in a gaggle chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officers, in accordance with screenshots considered by the Washington Publish.
In keeping with the Publish, Andreessen described MIT and Stanford (which I attended twenty years in the past) as “primarily political lobbying operations preventing American innovation.” He additionally reportedly complained that Stanford “compelled my spouse out [as chair of its Center on Philanthropy and Civil society] with out a second thought, a choice that may price them one thing like $5 billion in future donations.”
In a separate message that didn’t point out a particular faculty, Andreessen reportedly stated that universities “declared conflict on 70% of the nation and now they’re going to pay the worth.” He took intention at “DEI and immigration,” which he reportedly described as “two types of discrimination” which might be “politically deadly.”
Final 12 months, Andreessen and his Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz each stated that they have 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 associate 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 all the pieces.”
