Hedge Fund Billionaire Ken Griffin, Who Recently Donated $300 Million to Harvard, Says It’s Now Full of “Whiny Snowflakes” and His Checkbook Is Closed

Last April, as in just nine months ago, hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin donated a staggering $300 million to Harvard University, the school he graduated from in 1989. At the time, Griffin called the school a “great institution,” saying Harvard was “committed to advancing ideas that will shape humanity’s future, while providing important insight into our past.” But fast-forward nine months, and the university, according to Griffin, has gone completely off the rails; its students have become “whiny snowflakes,” he says, and he wants nothing to do with the place unless it shapes up.

Speaking at a conference in Miami on Tuesday, Griffin, who has a net worth of $36.8 billion, said “America’s elite universities” are “lost in the wilderness of microaggressions [and] a DEI agenda that seems to have no real endgame.” He added that they are overrun with “young men and women who are just caught up in the rhetoric of oppressor and oppressee, and ‘this is not fair,’ and frankly just, like, whiny snowflakes.” When asked where he stood on giving Harvard more money, he declared: “Until Harvard makes it very clear that they’re going to resume their role [of] educating young American men and women to be leaders, to be problem solvers, to take on difficult issues, I’m not interested in supporting the institution.”

Griffin has given more than $500 million to the university in total, and after last year’s nine-figure gift, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was renamed the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in his honor. Griffin has not said if he will ask for his name to be removed in protest of the school having apparently lost its way.

Griffin is not the only Harvard donor to temporarily close his checkbook to the school in recent months. A number of other billionaires have done the same, including one who has gone scorched-earth on the place.

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