School

“Get a real internship as soon as possible because whatever you learn in school is probably going to be outdated quickly.”

“In 20 years, you know, predict the future, what's going to be the same in 20 years? Parents are going to drop their kids off at a building. In the building are gonna be other kids and adults, right? There's, we're not, you're not getting rid of school. School …”

“80% of schools have contracts with soda companies.”

“School misses the two most important things, which is sales and public speaking.”

“School is not just about education. It's about understanding humanity. It's about seeing each other and getting to know the stories and learning things from other kids.”

“It's why I say chat bots or cheat bots and they're terrible. Like if we could ban Like those chatbots being in school, that would be great.”

“You get way better outcomes with one-on-one tutoring focused on mastery learning, where you only progress through topics once the student has mastered the prior topic, and you kind of move your way sequentially through things. And schools almost definitionally…”

“If you give kids ChatGPT in school and academics, 90% will use it for cheating.”

“The median experience of a parent is I don't know what's happening at school. I'd maybe go to a parent teacher conference once every six months. And sometimes I get a piece of paper home in a backpack.”

“You got to rebuild your whole school from the ground up, right? You can't just sort of tack it on, right? This is a full rebuild.”

“It might look like a funny, simple idea that can't go anywhere, but I actually think it's like a sneaky, really good idea. That's a huge wedge into something that can be a lot bigger.”

“School, number 38, schools won't be disrupted by AI. They'll be disintermediated. Smart teens will skip formal education, build audiences, run experiments, learn faster.”

“There's no need for them. There's nothing good that comes of it, and Ginja's, all of Ginja's reasons for it being bad, but no, I mean, what do students need a phone? They're in a place where there's adult supervision, and there are wired phones. If God forbid …”

“Schools is like the worst market to go into. It's just a bad pitch. The schools have very low budgets.”

“For example, you know, we host a lot of our communities on School. And School, which is actually Hermozzi's, one of Hermozzi and Sam Oven's business. We get 40% of lifetime revenue of the 99 dollars a month that people pay for it.”

“The CDC has great research on this, which is that if you present, if you normalize suicide with kids, if you present it as a means of coping with distress, you know, basically telegraphing, this is something other kids are doing. When they feel sad, you consta…”

“There is a major conflict of interest with schools getting involved in mental health. Huge conflict of interest. Should never have been allowed.”

“Because the psych staffs are like the DEI staffs of an organ, of a corporation. That's what the psych staff now is at a school. They effectively run the schools. They pass judgment on everything. They control what a teacher can assign. What kind of test a teac…”

“So you've, we've got, like, 21 years indoctrinated in getting a homework assignment, going away, and coming back. And then we're like, we throw you into the workforce, and we're like, by the way, now your job is to cheat as much as you can. I'm gonna give you …”

“And schools do a really bad job of training this. So for those reasons, we picked digital marketing and that was a good decision.”

“There are various attempts by companies to do like AI detectors now. You know, was this text written by AI and schools are actually starting to use that. And I think we can definitively, that will not work. Yeah. So what we can tell, there's already been cases…”

“I know of some instances where some well-known VCs have stopped some well-known schools from investing because they said, we don't want to work for you anymore based on your politics.”

“Selling into schools is super, super, super hard. Like one of the other startups that I'm referring to they just couldn't get past they, like because there's a lot of bureaucracy at schools, as I'm sure you know.”

“Schools are collectively spending about fifteen billion dollars a year on advertising, marketing, and admissions costs, and this is a system that is profoundly unequal, right?”

“For real learning to happen in that kind of a setting is simply not possible. Yes, you do pick up other skills, and you pick up social skills, and so on. You form friendships, and I think that part is also important. But learning is not happening. Learning won…”

“And we see us getting to about 80 to a hundred schools by the end of December.”

“In Hack Club, we don't work with schools. We don't work with teachers. We don't work with school administrators. We only work with teenagers. And even though we're on an in-person program inside of schools, we only interface with teenagers.”

“People hate in that business, like the fitness industry and schools, they hate monthly payments. They hate yearly payments.”

“I don't think schools are going away and I don't think schools are going online anytime soon.”

“So one of the reasons we moved from the consumer approach to the institutional approach is to bring Dreambox to every child. We brought Dreambox to where all kids were in schools. Not just to the parents who happen to know about it, but to institutions and com…”

“I think that the schools will reopen and they'll, they'll do all this planning. There'll be all these like pods and half days and smaller groups and that kind of thing. And then somebody's going to, there'll be like one case, either a kid or, you know, one fam…”

“I think school is often a waste of time, especially if you're in tech. My number one piece of feedback to people is, Get experience. If you want to be in business, start a business. Don't do an MBA.”

“Since she got her start, a bunch of states have changed their laws and now allow kids to use sunscreen in schools without a prescription.”

“People would value you more if you hacked the system and didn't pay them and did it on your own than if you actually went to the school.”

“The problem is the way reading is taught in our schools. It actually kills all the interest. You are forced to read. You are forced to read stuff you don't want to read. You are forced to summarize it, which makes no sense to you, but as a kid you are pretty m…”

“Once you send your kid off to school full-time, parents remain involved in some respects. I think reading is one of the main ones. They still think, feel like it's their job to make sure they're reading regularly to their child and helping to reinforce, you kn…”

“Freaking drop out of the school and go and go.”

“You know, you learn most at school, not from your school, but from your friends.”

“Honestly, twenty-year, when I was 20, I was in school, and if there was any advice I could give myself, it was probably to try less, focus less on school itself, I think. Where I am today, the amount of work that I put into getting good grades hasn't really he…”

“Schools have gotten pretty rigid out there. They're telling you what to say, what to do, what to think and they're not letting you explore and experiment and try things”