Tech billionaire Trump adviser
Marc Andreessen
recently said universities will
“pay the price” for promoting diversity and allegedly discriminating against Trump supporters,
according to messages he sent to a group chat with White House officials and technology leaders.

The billionaire’s messages cited Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University
and the National Science Foundation.

“I view Stanford and MIT as mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation at this point,”
Andreessen wrote in screenshots of messages sent May 3 and reviewed by The Post.

The investor described a “counterattack” against universities in his messages
and called for the National Science Foundation, a federal research funding agency, to receive
“the bureaucratic death penalty.”

Andreessen sent his messages to a WhatsApp group used by Trump officials to discuss artificial intelligence policy with dozens of tech figures and academics,
according to screenshots of the chat from May and June reviewed by The Post.

The group, whose members have varied political views, predates the current Trump administration.

It was established in 2023 to connect investors and others with a shared interest in open development of AI.

A White House official said members of the Trump administration in the group participated in their personal capacity,
no official policy was discussed, and that Andreessen was not an official adviser to the president.

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