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#104 The Elite Private High School Where Students Earn A Million Dollars: [Nat Eliason of Founder School (via Alpha)]
About this episode
In this episode, Eric Jorgenson interviews Nat Eliason about the innovative Founder School at Alpha School, which guarantees students can earn a million dollars through entrepreneurship education.
Topics: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:03:27) - Nat joins Alpha School to launch Founder School (00:04:11) - The million-dollar business guarantee (00:04:44) - Why no program like this exists yet (00:09:09) - How AI tutors compress academics into three hours (00:13:00) - Teenagers are capable of real work (00:15:27) - The Alpha School platform and expansion model (00:25:35) - Founder School's September 2026 launch (00:29:21) - Reproducing Stanford's entrepreneurial advantages (00:38:00) - Year one curriculum: sales first (00:48:28) - Building expertise and avoiding hustle culture (00:53:42) - The institutional skin in the game (00:56:22) - Who's applying and the $150K tuition (01:01:04) - Ten-year vision: 10,000 students across ten campuses (01:08:04) - How to learn more and get involved Links: Eric Jorgenson LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/erjorgenson Twitter / X — https://x.com/EricJorgenson Website — https://www.ejorgenson.com/ Nat Eliason LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/nateliason/ Twitter / X — https://twitter.com/nateliason Website — https://www.nateliason.com/ Alpha School — https://alpha.school/ Founder School — https://founders.school To support the costs of…
People in this episode
Host: Eric Jorgenson
Guest: Nat Eliason
Topics covered
- entrepreneurship education
- AI in learning
- business guarantees
- high school curriculum
- student entrepreneurship
- institutional investment
Keywords
- Founder School
- Alpha School
- entrepreneurship
- AI tutors
- high school
- business education
- tuition
- curriculum
- institutional support
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Alpha School, Founder School, Stanford, Eric Jorgenson LinkedIn, Nat Eliason LinkedIn
Products: Navalmanack, The Anthology of Balaji
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