The internet made it possible to know anything. AI makes it possible to do anything.
We live in an age of infinite knowledge, and we are entering an age of infinite doing. One in which we are constrained only by our creativity. That changes what it means to be educated. It changes what it means to be young. And it demands a new kind of institution.
We are thrilled to announce The Horowitz Andreessen Academy. HAA is a private, full-time, in-person school in San Francisco for young people coming out of high school. Our mission is to nurture the best young people in the world, and equip them with the tools to shape it.
The campus will be humming. Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Travis Kalanick, Mira Murati, Ali Ghodsi, Patrick Collison and countless other luminaries in tech will visit and give lectures. Students will be excitedly sharing their projects, workshopping ideas with their mentors, and constantly pushing their peers.
Student experience at The Academy
The Academy is for students to both explore and go deep. This materializes in 3 principal ways: Co-ops, Courses, and Pursuits.
Co-ops are the opportunity to work during the year (not just over the summer). It can be a rotation program across countless different roles and companies. We want you to have so many work opportunities that you’ve tried everything and directionally know what you like and what you don’t. Or if you know what you like on the first one, you keep doing it. Students may have opportunities to work at our founding partners Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe or any of our hiring partners here.
Courses are taught by legendary people. Students will study the complete work of individuals and then be speaking with them directly. Our instructors have founded unicorn companies. We also have the investors who invested in those unicorn companies. There will be people who write textbooks. As well as the people the textbooks will be written about.
And most importantly, it’s about Pursuits. It’s about personal projects, quests, startup ideas, rabbit holes that define the student experience. At any given point, students will be working on one or multiple Pursuits. It’s what they spend their free time pursuing, what they workshop with their coaches and mentors, and what they talk to guests who host sessions. A pursuit can also be three weeks in a different country, where the Academy will connect you to the right people when you arrive.