a16z(@a16z):Ben Horowitz on why a16z is incubating The Horowitz Andreessen Academy: the Industrial Revolution remade education. AI will too. "The university system started out as a religious institution with the Jesuits and so forth. Then the Industrial Revolution came, and all of a sudden everybody needed a higher level of the ability to learn things, the ability to be literate." "The university system exploded in the US. The universities got much bigger, and there became many more of them." "That was really necessary to train the population to enter the corporate world. It's hard for people to understand now, but in 1700 there was no corporate world. There was a farm world, and then all of a sudden we get these companies." "To exist in that environment, you've got to be able to read and write and do math... To a large extent, the America that we have was built on the backs of our great universities." "We're hitting the AI revolution now, which is going to be, in our estimation, as transformational in terms of jobs, the way jobs are done, and the kinds of jobs that are available, as the Industrial Revolution was to the agricultural society that came before it." "The idea that the training for the Industrial Revolution is going to map into the AI revolution, probably not perfectly. There needs to be a pioneer that shows the way: How do you train somebody into the new world?" @bhorowitz

2026.09.22 20:00

Ben Horowitz on why a16z is incubating The Horowitz Andreessen Academy: the Industrial Revolution remade education. AI will too. "The university system started out as a religious institution with the Jesuits and so forth. Then the Industrial Revolution came, and all of a sudden everybody needed a higher level of the ability to learn things, the ability to be literate." "The university system exploded in the US. The universities got much bigger, and there became many more of them." "That was really necessary to train the population to enter the corporate world. It's hard for people to understand now, but in 1700 there was no corporate world. There was a farm world, and then all of a sudden we get these companies." "To exist in that environment, you've got to be able to read and write and do math... To a large extent, the America that we have was built on the backs of our great universities." "We're hitting the AI revolution now, which is going to be, in our estimation, as transformational in terms of jobs, the way jobs are done, and the kinds of jobs that are available, as the Industrial Revolution was to the agricultural society that came before it." "The idea that the training for the Industrial Revolution is going to map into the AI revolution, probably not perfectly. There needs to be a pioneer that shows the way: How do you train somebody into the new world?" @bhorowitz

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2026.09.22 16:55

Gagan Biyani with Erik Torenberg and Ben Horowitz on HAA: The Horowitz Andreessen Academy HAA is a private, full-time, in-person school in San Francisco for young people coming out of high school. Its mission is to nurture the best young people in the world, and equip them with the tools to shape it. The Industrial Revolution rewrote how we train young people. It's time for a new model for the AI era. HAA is project-based – less lecture time, more time with tools and AI, structured social life, co-ops/internships, with students embedded alongside working adults. Founding Partners include Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. It's the best time in history to be 18. The vision is grads with careers they love or their own companies founded, and hopefully other schools copying the model down the road. 0:55 Why a16z is backing a school 4:40 Why other college alternatives failed 6:55 AI is this era's Industrial Revolution 9:35 The model: live in SF, intern at top startups 12:10 Ben: the best time in history to be 18 15:25 No big idea at 18? Join someone who has one 17:40 People skills come from reps, not lectures 23:15 Why it has to be San Francisco 26:45 Why it's a separate, for-profit company 31:00 Every curiosity becomes a project 33:30 Main character or NPC? 35:15 You can't learn to be a CEO from a book 37:30 Picking a problem, and failing the right way 40:30 What success looks like in five years YouTube: @gaganbiyani @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg

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