What's a billionaire football booster really like? I worked for one!

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It’s funny how you can kind of forget about a very important part of your life.

I spent the past two weeks writing about college football’s billionaire class. They occupy a stratum of wealth so removed from normalcy, it's practically alien. I was fascinated by that. I kept wondering what these filthy rich, college football-loving boosters were really like.

Then it hit me. I spent eight months working right next to a filthy rich, college football-loving, real-deal billionaire booster! I know exactly what they’re like! 

When I worked under him, he had a net worth of $1.9 billion. A year earlier, he’d given $100 million to his alma mater. He personally supervised the demolition and reconstruction of the school’s football stadium. His team had just hired a buzzy new coach, one of the sport's most divisive figures. 

He’s dead now, so I can speak freely. Unless his daughter sees this. She’s married to another billionaire, one with a thin skin and an open disdain for the media. But you know we don’t care about that!

Any guesses? Well, it wouldn’t be FOIAball if we weren’t touching on some horrific aspect of modern society.

So let me tell ya all about what it was like to work alongside Marc Andreessen’s father-in-law.