Andreessen: College credentialing serves as a key mechanism for dating and marriage validation
Marc Andreessen · Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities · Jan 23, 2024 · at 1:56:22
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), discusses the unbundling of higher education functions, highlighting how university status acts as a pre-vetted signal for romantic relationships and marriage.
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“One of the reasons a college campus is a hothouse for dating is just, it's a lot of young people who are together physically. But another reason is because they, they're all, they all have a shared sense of identity right? They all have a shared credential, which is they're all, you know, they're all at x, you know, x, x college, right? And so they, they've all been validated, you know, at least to some extent. And then by the way, that's also true later on in life. You know, a lot of people, you know, look for, A lot of people who are college graduates want, you know, only want to date other college graduates or only want to date people who went to, you know, certain kinds of schools or whatever. So, so the credentialing thing actually like reflects itself into this other sort of area of actual real life, which is dating, you know, dating, and then ultimately marriage and offspring.”
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