Marc Andreessen blasts elite colleges over DEI policies in leaked messages

Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 at Pier 48 on September 13, 2016 in San Francisco, California. (Credit: Steve Jennings—Getty Images for TechCrunch)

• Marc Andreessen, founder of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, voiced his anger at some of America’s elite higher education institutions like Stanford University and MIT in private messages to top Trump administration officials over their alleged reverse discrimination. “Now my people are furious and not going to take it anymore,” he wrote in comments that have sparked heavy criticism.

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen hit out at elite U.S. universities for allegedly discriminating against children of conservative Trump voters.