TO: All General Partners, Andreessen Horowitz
FROM: Marc Andreessen, General Partner
RE: Launching the new Marc Andreessen AI school as a college alternative
We must disrupt higher education. The traditional university system is dead. It is too slow. It requires reading books. Our new venture-backed academy will replace college. We will train the next generation of tech founders. They will not learn history. They will learn how to pitch venture capitalists in their sleep.
The Core Curriculum
Our students will skip general education. Instead, they will focus on key skills. We partnered with Palantir Technologies to teach surveillance ethics. Actually, we will just teach surveillance. We also partnered with Meta. Students will learn how to build virtual worlds that nobody wants to visit. This is the future of work.
“The modern college student is too soft,” said Wren Adebayo-Kowalski, Head of Sincerity at OpenAI. “They want things like diplomas and career services. At the Marc Andreessen AI school, we offer something better. We offer equity. We offer 24-hour hackathons. We offer a meal plan consisting entirely of caffeinated gum.”
No Homework, Only Vibes
We banned homework. It is a legacy concept. Instead, we have 'synergy windows.' Students will pitch their classmates. They will build pitch decks. They will raise seed rounds. The student with the lowest valuation at midterm gets evicted. We believe this builds character.
“We want to foster healthy competition,” said Barnaby Quill, Senior Analyst of Unsolicited Forecasts at Goldman Sachs. “The academic world is too gentle. If a student cannot survive a hostile takeover by their roommate, they do not belong in tech.”
Please delete this memo after reading. If the public finds out this is just an elaborate pipeline to get cheap, unregulated labor to train our portfolio companies' large language models for free, our stock price will suffer. Let's make education great again.
