Alpha School

“Our second graders gotta run a five K. Our eighth graders have to do a tough mudder, or they also all have to cross the finish line at the same time.”

“We have some of the world's best video game developers, right? Building and they're spending two years building a video game on this, these concepts. And it will be free to learn, you know, think free to play free to learn for five hundred million kids and it'…”

“And, you know, we have a building with a few hundred people in Austin, Who get more hundreds on the Texas car than a school district of a 100,000.”

“That is the skill we think is critical. We start teaching it in high school.”

“Before I did this and put my billion dollars in, I talked to a dozen billionaires who'd all spent over, had all spent over a billion dollars on education. And to a person, every single person said, don't do it.”

“Like there is nothing that motivates a student more and a kid more than them being able to go head to head with their parent and winning like fair, not where the parent tanked it.”

“Four weeks ago when we surveyed all our kids, 46% of our students said, I would rather go to school than go on vacation.”

“I put in a billion dollars for my software company as the first payment.”

“The books, once you get to middle school at Alpha, you have to read 10 to 25. There's another book, Self-Driven Child, that we do not allow kindergarten moms to read, because it talks about your kid being independent, and at kindergarten is the last thing you …”

“We have a student who's going to be published in nature. She will be the first school student as a lead researcher published in nature.”