Billionaire Trump ally Marc Andreessen warned that elite universities like MIT and Stanford will have to “pay the price” for DEI as he called for a “counterattack” on educational institutions in a group chat with tech leaders and White House officials.
“I view Stanford and MIT as mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation at this point,” the co-founder of the Andreessen-Horowitz venture capital firm wrote, according to screenshots of messages sent May 3 and obtained by the Washington Post.
“The universities are at Ground Zero of the counterattack.”
Marc Andreessen warned that elite universities will have to “pay the price” for DEI. REUTERS
Andreessen, whose firm has $42 billion in assets under management, has donated millions of dollars to Stanford over the years.
He blasted Stanford and other top universities for favoring DEI initiatives that bring in foreign students over US citizens — a sentiment shared by President