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Secret Tech Billionaire Is Betting $1B on This · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 2:05 Joe Lonsdale But now you're the principal of Alpha School very famously, which is going to change education in America.
- ▶ 11:25 Joe Lonsdale And you helped build this school for them originally, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:43 Joe Liemandt So where are, if you look at where money goes, you know, in, in, in an alpha school, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:17 Joe Liemandt And today when we reinvent, that is the core value of every school we start, whether it's an alpha or any other type. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:24 Joe Liemandt My daughter, my older daughter, who is, you know, 1600 SAT, math, English, double major at Stanford, who went through the old system, you know, and she was at Alpha for 10 years with no teacher. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:41 Joe Lonsdale Alpha is probably more about the average and the top, or is it also doing things for the bottom?
- ▶ 24:42 Joe Liemandt Well, and so I'll give you one, one other thing that you have to believe to think Alpha's model is going to work, and this is probably the most controversial thing I'll say today, which is the key to your child's happiness is high…
- ▶ 27:50 Joe Liemandt Our job, like, when we look at Alpha, our job is to find what ignites the kid, right?
- ▶ 29:30 Joe Liemandt Um, there's an Astral Codex article that is out there that talks, that's from an, uh, alpha parent, who's like, I think the money's the most important.
- ▶ 33:19 Joe Liemandt Um, uh, or how about, and middle schoolers, after they finish their academics and crush it, because we, we pay every kid in middle school at Alpha a thousand dollars if they get to top one percent.
- ▶ 36:51 Joe Lonsdale For people who don't know very well what's going on with Alpha, one, one, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:51 Joe Liemandt We have, you know, our middle schoolers, back to Alpha, our middle schoolers were like, they read about how these Ukrainian refugees didn't have, uh, schools and teachers, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:31 Joe Lonsdale And so in school choice is going to fund a lot of new alpha schools, it sounds like. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:10 Joe Lonsdale And so explicitly in Alpha, obviously even though there's no religion, you still want to have those values, for example, of free speech and, uh, and of, and of markets.
- ▶ 53:16 Joe Liemandt And this, and we look at what we're doing at alpha.
This Idea is Destroying American Universities · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 45:58 Carlos Carvalho I think if you see the things that, for example, Joe Limon and the Alpha School are showing us, right, is that you can do a pretty good job in elevating people's knowledge
Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 23:11 Joe Lonsdale You have people doing this like Joe Lamont with Alpha.
The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 48:18 Brendan McCord So I, I'm, you know, I do stuff with Alpha School.