Joe Liemandt, founder of Alpha School, discusses expanding Alpha's AI-driven learning platform beyond its private campuses to external educators worldwide.
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“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.”
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