Founders School students are domain experts who build an audience around their thinking and ship products that their audience wants. Year 1 teaches you to run that loop — expertise, audience, product — in miniature every week.
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Graduate With
A Million Dollars.
Four years. Real businesses. Real revenue. You graduate with a company, and a diploma.
Fall 2026First Class
1350+
Average SAT
Across Alpha School Seniors
3 hrs
Daily Academics
AI-accelerated, mastery-based
100%
College-Prep
Complete college-prep transcript
Top 1%
Scores
Based on national standardized tests

Justin Mares
TrueMed, Kettle & Fire

Zach Yadegari
CalAI

Claire Vo
ChatPRD

Dan Shipper
Every

Eric Jorgenson
Naval Almanack

Ben Wilson
How to Take Over the World

David Booth
A16Z

Tiffany Zhong
noplace

Kevin Lee
immi

Blake Anderson
10x

Joe Liemandt
Alpha School

Sarah Cone
Social Impact Capital
The Four Pillars of Founder Bootcamp
02
Five Sessions: Sell → Build → Validate → Grow → Scale
Each session is 8 weeks. Sell strangers on the street. Build and ship a product in days with AI. Validate by running a loop a week. Grow using proven techniques. Scale past the limits of what you can do alone.
03
Fifteen Core Skills
Developed all year across three pillars: Life Skills (integrity, courage, agency, communication, leadership), Entrepreneurship (building, selling, iteration, financial thinking, domain expertise), and AI (thinking partner, augmented building, tool literacy, automation, ethics).
04
An Entrepreneur In Your Corner
Every student is paired with a working entrepreneur who pair-works with them every afternoon — not a lecturer. Elite founders, investors, and thinkers drop in every other week. Plus a specialist bench we pull from when your situation needs expertise the team can't cover.
8:15
Academics
AI-accelerated. Mastery-based. Done by 11am.
11:00
Daily Standup
Set goals. Get feedback. Stay accountable.
11:30
Lunch
Eat with your cohort. Recharge.
12:00
Build
Your business. Your time. Until dark.
Not aid. Not a scholarship. A bet on you.
We're putting our money where our mouth is. If you don't hit it, we failed. Full refund.
Only applies for students who enroll as freshmen, and is subject to program terms. Some exceptions apply.