Packy McCormick and Alex Danco on Whether They'd Send Their Kids to the New a16z-Backed HAA Academy
a16z Newsletter · rss · 2026-09-23
a16z's Packy McCormick and Alex Danco co-wrote a deeply personal essay on the Horowitz Andreessen Academy (HAA), a residential SF alternative-to-college co-founded by Udemy founder Gagan Biyani. Writing as parents, they argue the hard parts of parenting are resilience, kindness, and initiative — not skills — and that in an AI era there is no safe career path anymore: math, law are being disrupted, and Brooklyn parents paying $650K for elite school pipelines may be optimizing for jobs that won't exist. A thoughtful take on education and parenting under AI uncertainty.
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