
Ben Averbook
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Here's my conversation with Austen Allred Allred, founder of GauntletAI, Bloomtech, and formerly Lambda School. (0:00) Why Build Schools? The Origin of Training 1% Engineers (3:42) Why Edtech? Why Fix Education? (7:18) College Dropout to Education Builder (12:35) Impact Comparison: Gauntlet vs Previous Projects (16:22) Why Don't More Entrepreneurs Attack Broken Education? (21:08) The Gauntlet Model: Aligning All Incentives (26:45) Fixing Lambda's Problems with Better Incentive Design (31:20) Graduation and Job Placement Numbers (35:17) Scalability: Vocational AI Education Across Disciplines (40:55) Is Gauntlet a Real Higher Education Alternative? (44:30) Non-Education Education: The Power of Self Learning (48:36) Alpha School and Setting High Expectations (52:24) Agency Induction and High Agency Filtering (53:05) Why 80 to 100 Hours Per Week Matters (54:35) Finding the Weird Island of Misfits (55:14) Austin's Education Revolution and the Tech Connection (57:00) The Great Man Theory and Building the Future Gauntlet AI
Ben Averbook98,453 views • 9 months ago

Is the "Dropout Economy" the future of innovation? Here is my conversation with Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕. Danielle along with Michael P Gibson, has been funding dropouts, the renegades, the mad scientists for over a decade via the Thiel Fellowship (Thiel Fellowship) & 1517 Fund (1517 Fund). Links below. Enjoy! Timestamps: 00:00:50 - Intro 00:15:34 - Alternative Ed Roots 00:07:05 - Homeschooling Philosophy/1517 00:11:53 - Advice for Feeling Stuck/Labels 00:17:40 - Case Against College 00:26:17 - AI & Learning 00:29:55 - Founder "Fire in the Belly" 00:33:50 - Train Story/Passion 00:42:05 - Finding Your "North Star" 00:47:23 - 1517/Renegade Science 00:49:35 - Long-Term Commitment
Ben Averbook52,449 views • 1 year ago