Gagan Biyani

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If AI can help students learn the traditional curriculum dramatically faster, what should they do with the rest of their education? In this episode, I sit down with Alpha School founder Joe Lamont and Horowitz and Andreessen Academy co-founder Gagan Biyani to talk about what school should look like in the AI era.

Joe has spent years building Alpha around a radically different model.

Students spend roughly two hours a day on core academics, then use the rest of their time developing skills like teamwork, entrepreneurship, communication, and leadership through real-world projects.

[laughs] All right, we're gonna keep this AI discussion, and we're gonna look at it from a different angle, uh, training the next generation of greats in all things AI.

And I wanna welcome in, uh, the Horowitz Andreessen Academy CEO, uh, Gagan Biyani.

Uh, Gagan, good to see you.

Thanks for doing this.

Come do school with us instead.' The storied venture capital firm is investing $35 million in an unaccredited San Francisco-based two-year alternative to traditional college for students aged 16 to 22.

Though named as the Horowitz And- Andreessen Academy, the, the school will operate as an independent business led by Gagan Biyani, fo- cofounder of the edtech platform Udemy.

Some of the heaviest hitters in tech are serving as founding partners: Anthropic, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, and OpenAI, among others." will provide access to software and compute and open their offices for learning purposes.

Applications to the academy will open this week for the founding class, who will begin a one-year program in the fall of 2027, tuition-free.