As a former CS50 student and Mark&#x27;s classmate, I personally find it depressing that Harvard&#x27;s current CS50 professor, who is widely praised, is secretly on Sequoia&#x27;s payroll via a shell company so that they can have the inside track on the &quot;next Zuckerberg.&quot;<p>If professors want to teach, they should teach. If they want to invest, they should invest. But they shouldn&#x27;t be doing both without making it clear to students what they&#x27;ve actually signed up for.<p>Actually, all of it is deceptive (to entrepreneurs, to students, to the public, to other investors) and depressing. But that part is particularly disturbing.