The Betrayal at Silicon Valley's Core: How Tech Billionaires Attack Public Science

Silicon Valley was built on government-funded research, yet today's tech billionaires are actively defunding the institutions that created their success. By redirecting research dollars from universities to private industry, they threaten not only academic institutions but the long-term innovation pipeline itself. This contradiction reveals a troubling pattern: extracting value from public systems while dismantling the very infrastructure that enabled that extraction.