a16z launches Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a grades-free SF school for young builders
pjausovec · x · 2026-09-22
a16z is launching the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a highly selective San Francisco school for ambitious young builders fresh out of high school (or early college), designed to prepare them for an AI-reshaped world.
Key points:
- No traditional grades, tests, or homework; students take short, high-impact classes from storied Silicon Valley founders and operators, then spend most of their time starting companies, working at startups, and tinkering on projects.
- The philosophy centers on "building" as the most valuable way to learn, arguing teens can now train robotics models from open-sourced egocentric video or take a business idea from morning concept to same-day revenue.
- Announced by Gagan Biyani, with Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg discussing it on the a16z Show.
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