Founders School — $1M by Graduation

Founders School

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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

Justin Mares

TrueMed, Kettle & Fire

Zach Yadegari

Zach Yadegari

CalAI

Claire Vo

Claire Vo

ChatPRD

Dan Shipper

Dan Shipper

Every

Eric Jorgenson

Eric Jorgenson

Naval Almanack

Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson

How to Take Over the World

David Booth

David Booth

A16Z

Tiffany Zhong

Tiffany Zhong

noplace

Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee

immi

Blake Anderson

Blake Anderson

10x

Joe Liemandt

Joe Liemandt

Alpha School

Sarah Cone

Sarah Cone

Social Impact Capital

The Four Pillars of Founder Bootcamp

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.

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.