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Why a16z is Building a New School for the AI Era | Ben Horowitz

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Why a16z is Building a New School for the AI Era | Ben Horowitz

The a16z Show

19 HOURS AGO
The a16z Show

The a16z Show

19 HOURS AGO
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Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg sit down with Gagan Biyani to introduce the Horowitz and Andreessen Academy and discuss a bigger question: what should education look like when AI is rapidly changing the skills people need to build, work, and create? Ben a...

Highlights

Ben Horowitz and Gagan Biyani explain why they are building a project-based academy for young people who want to create in the AI era.
00:00
The best time in history to be young
14:49
The past may fade faster than we expect
22:42
A community of builders can accelerate learning
32:16
Make the problem harder
39:37
Failure can earn you a secret

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Why the academy offers another path
00:00
Building an AI-era learning model
05:58
Experience, relationships, and people skills
13:46
San Francisco, curiosity, and ambitious projects
22:47
From projects and failure to creative possibility
32:41

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Ben Horowitz: This should be the greatest time in the history of humanity to be young. This is like Thomas Edison's time or Henry Ford's time, or so forth. But the challenge that we have is everything that we've built to train you was built for a world tha...