Ben Horowitz: 'One of the best times in history to be 18' as AI-era school HAA launches
a16z · x · 2026-09-23
a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz argues this may be one of the best times in history to be 18: young people will enter a world only their generation understands, and can out-capable veterans with 20-30 years of experience without climbing the corporate ladder.
The remarks back HAA (Horowitz Andreessen Academy), a private full-time school in San Francisco for post-high-school students, using project-based learning with minimal lectures and heavy AI/tool use, plus internships embedded with working adults. Founding partners include Anduril, Anthropic, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Replit and Stripe. Horowitz's thesis: the Industrial Revolution rewrote how we train young people, and the AI era needs a new model.
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