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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 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

"Where do you wanna be in 15 years? I wanna be funding 11 year olds. I want to be like, hey, you're ready, let's get you building something, let's go. And he laughed and I was like, I'm mostly serious. One of our contrarian truths at 1517 is that child labor is good. And we don't mean in the exploitative sense, we mean in the like, there's so much creativity and energy and to be told you have to wait... when this learning curve is getting accelerated, doesn't make any sense anymore." - Danielle Strachman (Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕) on the vision for 1517 Fund
Ben Averbook54,563 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

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 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr