a16z launches Horowitz Andreessen Academy in SF, with Huang and Nadella among guest lecturers
a16z Newsletter · rss · 2026-09-22
a16z announced The Horowitz Andreessen Academy (HAA), a private full-time in-person school in San Francisco for post-high-school students, with a Founding Class Fellowship now accepting applications.
Key points:
- Guest lecturers include Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Travis Kalanick, Mira Murati, Ali Ghodsi, and Patrick Collison.
- Co-op rotations at founding partners including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe.
- Three pillars: Co-ops (year-round work rotations), Courses (taught by unicorn founders and investors, e.g. AI Inference Engineering), and Pursuits (personal projects and startup quests, including three-week trips abroad).
- Thesis: "The internet made it possible to know anything. AI makes it possible to do anything." Courses center on problems that cannot be solved without AI; SF chosen for its meritocratic founder network, replicating college's co-founder-matching function in a physical space.
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