a16z and Horowitz launch two-year SF academy with Altman, Huang, Fei-Fei Li as mentors
verdakorz · x · 2026-09-23
a16z has unveiled the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a two-year residential program in San Francisco for 16-22 year olds.
- Founder Erik Torenberg cites Bloom's 1984 finding that mastery-based one-on-one tutoring outperformed 98% of the control group, arguing AI now makes this scalable.
- The mentor network spans 240+ names including Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Fei-Fei Li, Satya Nadella, Patrick Collison, Naval Ravikant and Tyler Cowen.
- Structure: SF campus September-April, a month abroad in May, and a co-op stint June-August, built around building rather than lectures.
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