Why Education Has to Change
Ben Horowitz, Gagan Biyani, and Erik Torenberg discuss a new academy in San Francisco built to train entrepreneurs for the AI era, rejecting the traditional college model.
The gist
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Traditional college costs too much time and money to teach skills that matter for starting companies or getting tech jobs.
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Past edtech startups failed by offering only job training or credentials, missing the full package of education, community, status, and fun.
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Real judgment and leadership come from working on actual projects with real consequences, not from lectures or textbooks.
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Being in San Francisco gives students direct access to 1,600 portfolio companies and a culture that treats failure as normal.
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