TimeBack
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Liemandt: Alpha's App Teaches K-8 Subjects to Mastery in Under 30 Hours
“Kids can learn 10 times faster. So if you take, like, just here's a metric for you. Our subjects, like take seventh grade science. In a normal standard school, you have a 180 school days. So an hour a day, maybe some homework, couple hundred hours, right? The …”
Liemandt: Alpha's Time Back Engine Will Release Globally in 2026
“That's Time Back, our Time Back engine, that's 10, and today it's at Alpha, you know, in 20, 26, everybody in the world's gonna be able to access it. And so everybody who wants to build a school based on Time Back is gonna be able to next year.”
Liemandt: TimeBack will become the Shopify for micro-schools
“Think of Shopify for micro school, or for schools, right? That's what time back is going to be, and it's going to explode it.”
Alpha Built Multi-User Academic Competition Version of Its Software
“Like we have a multi-user version where the kids are just competing, right? Think of video games, but just, you know, you're competing on academics”
Liemandt: 'Time back' is the single strongest motivator for students
“The number one motivator and the name of our product is time back. Give kids their time back. There is nothing, more than money, more than anything, time back is the biggest motivator.”
Liemandt: Giving students their time back is the strongest academic motivator
“The name of our product is called Time Back. Time Back. Give kids their time back. That's cool. And that is by far the most motivation.”
Liemandt: Engaging video games on tablets will teach kids all required academics
“When I talk about this tablet, I absolutely believe that there will be video games on that tablet that are totally engaging to kids that they will go through and it will teach them everything they need to know.”
Liemandt: Alpha invested over $100 million in AAA video game designers
“We've invested over a hundred million dollars in getting some of the best video game designers in the world. They're down in Austin, and they are building a video game on top of the two hour learning engine that they believe will rival Any video game on the pl…”