Who needs a childhood when you can have preferred stock?
Page Six hears that Alpha School — the “AI-powered” school that, as we’ve reported, runs a summer camp featuring omakase classes and “life skills” like building Trojan horses — has launched a second school where students are guaranteed to graduate with a million-dollar business.
And all the Mini Musks have to do is build their business daily “until dark.” The original Alpha — which counts hedgie legend Bill Ackman among its supporters — figures that its “mastery-based, AI driven approach allows students to crush their academics” in hours, with the rest of the day focused on “team-based workshops” and fostering qualities such as “grit.”
Its new spinoff, Founders School, uses the “extra” time freed up by the AI-optimized curriculum to help kids build a business. And if it doesn’t hit a $1 million valuation by graduation, the school says it’ll refund your tuition — which runs you $150,000 a year.
“Alpha School proved that AI can compress a full day of academics into three hours while consistently outperforming traditional schools on standardized tests,” its website claims.
“Founders School adds 1,000+ hours per year of hands-on entrepreneurial experience on top.”
The New York City high school promises pupils will “learn to think, sell, and ship, harnessing AI to futureproof [their] skills and career.”
The school says that by the end of the first year, students will have a business worth more than $50,000, and by sophomore year they’ll be ready to hire their first staff members. By the end of 10th grade, they say the company will run without its “founder.”
The school says kids will be done with classes by 11 a.m., and that — somewhat ominously — they can work on their companies “until dark.” Baby burnout!
We previously reported on Alpha’s $40,500 summer camp where “every afternoon opens up into hands-on workshops where kids build, move, pitch, create, and do things that seem impossible.”
