Liemandt: Non-profit structures prevent successful school systems from scaling sustainably
Joe Liemandt · Alpha School's Disruptive Vision for the Future of Education · Invest Like The Best · Aug 26, 2025 · at 1:39:09
Joe Liemandt, principal of Alpha School, discusses why education needs market capitalism and for-profit business models to scale.
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“Part of the problem on, on schooling today is everything has to be nonprofit, right? The organization is nonprofit. And so then you just, you're caught up scaling, right? There are good school system, you know, charter schools out there, you know where their gating factor is, well, I'm waiting for someone to give me forty million dollars so I can build a campus. I have a 3000 person wait list, but you know, back to my economics, I need someone to donate forty million versus, okay, well, let's build a really good business model that you can build a business model out of it so you can open up 500 of them because capitalism will provide capital.”
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