Tech billionaire Marc Andreesen says universities will 'pay the price' for DEI

https://web.archive.org/web/20250712213939/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/12/marc-andreessen-private-chat-universities-diversity/

by g42gregory • 1 year ago

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techpineapple• 1 year ago

What is Marc Andreesen really angry about here? I can’t imagine he’s going hard on NSF Stanford and MIT because of DEI. Are they doing something that opposes his crypto or AI empire?

Also, he says universities favor immigrants, is he going after H1-B’s with the same fervor?

jrflowers• 1 year ago

What is Marc Andreesen really angry about here?

Considering he specifically calls out things making a turn for the worse 60 years ago, desegregation. That is the only change to the education system that could be interpreted as “DEI” at that time. Though if he was speaking more broadly, the civil rights movement as a whole.

fennec-posix• 1 year ago

These billionaires are so damn blind to their own bs it becomes someone else's fault, with disastrous consequences.

bix6• 1 year ago

Scott Kupor, employee #1 at Andreesen, Stanford grad.

Vijay Pande, founder of a16Z bio, MIT grad.

19 H1B LCAs 2022-2024 for a16z alone. 5 so far this year. That doesn't even include all their portcos! https://www.myvisajobs.com/employer/ah-capital-management/

cranberryturkey• 1 year ago

man if i had a billion dollars nobody would ever hear from me again. why can't they just disappear or stfu

apical_dendrite• 1 year ago

Andreesen had the opportunity to go to an excellent public university - a global leader in computer science. He worked at NCSA at University of Illinois, which was funded by the NSF. He was funded by the NSF to create Mosaic. He then founded his own company to build a competitor to Mosaic.

If Andreesen couldn't study computer science at a leading public university and get NSF funding to do research on the WWW at the exact right moment of time, does Marc Andreesen become a billionaire?

He's the post child for the success of American public universities and government-funded research. Now he wants to destroy that for everyone else.

qarl• 1 year ago

Each billionaire provides his own evidence as to why billionaires should not exist.

Don't worry guys - I'm sure there won't be a violent revolution this time.

Tech billionaire Marc Andreesen says universities will 'pay the price' for DEI

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