San Francisco · Andreessen Horowitz · Sam Altman · Jensen Huang · Fortune Technology
Higher education, he noted, is a $2 trillion industry
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The Academy is putting $42 million from a16z and a group of individual investors into the one-year San Francisco-based program.
Key facts
- The founding class will be about 50 students starting Sept. 2027, and it’s tuition-free—plus every student will get $50,000 in compute credits and a $5,000 travel budget
- The course list cited lists “The Craft of Selling” to “AI Inference Engineering” to “Origins and Innovations in Digital Computing 1940–2025
- The Academy is putting $42 million from a16z and a group of individual investors into the one-year San Francisco-based program
- But “something that can work for 50 handpicked people isn’t going to work even for the top 5,000,” he said
Summary
For elite students, college has never looked like a worse deal. “The bet is that there’s an opportunity to educate the next generation in a way that is more future-forward, and that’s a big market opportunity,” Gagan Biyani, a cofounder of $3.2 billion ed-tech unicorn Udemy who is now running the new Horowitz Andreessen Academy, told Fortune. The Academy then intends to seek regulatory approval for a two-year program starting in 2028. Biyani insisted that the school isn’t a rejection of the premise of higher education—”they believe in college,” he said.