a16z launches Horowitz Andreessen Academy in SF with 10 founding partners incl. OpenAI and NVIDIA
jfiance · x · 2026-09-22
Gagan Biyani announced The Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a new San Francisco school for ambitious high school graduates built around teaching students to "build" — framed as the key skill of the AI era, with learning driven mostly by student projects plus classes and guest lectures.
- 10 founding partners form its network: Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe
- The site lists 250 mentors including Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Fei-Fei Li, Satya Nadella, Mira Murati, Naval Ravikant, and Tyler Cowen
- Schedule: SF campus September–April, a month abroad in May, and a co-op June–August
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