Joe Liemandt

16 statements across 1 episodes · 9 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 27, 2026 by Joe Liemandt · across every show →

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May 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Liemandt: Alpha School requires second graders to run a 5K
“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.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 17:56 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026
Assertion Supported
Liemandt: Trilogy took 3.5 years before winning SGI, HP, AT&T, and IBM
“It took three and a half years to actually build the product and convince anybody to buy it. But then as soon as they started to buy, Silicon Graphics bought it, Hewlett Packard bought it, AT&T, IBM, right?”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 7:16 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Liemandt: Alpha School teaches high schoolers to build Brain Lifts for LLMs
“That is the skill we think is critical. We start teaching it in high school.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 55:47 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Twelve billionaire philanthropists warned Liemandt not to invest in education
“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.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 45:25 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026 positive
Insight
Liemandt: LLMs handle DOK 1-3, but humans still drive DOK 4 novel knowledge
“And LLMs are very good at helping you do DOK one, two, and three. And reasoning around that. And then the part that the humans still do really well is DOK four creating new knowledge.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 54:14 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026
Insight
Liemandt: Long strategy docs fail because employees cherry-pick alignment
“He's like, the problem with the 20 page strategy document is every single employee takes the one sentence That they can attach to and say, see unaligned, right? And when they're really not, and then that's, you just lose, right? You diffuse all your focus.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 31:01 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026 positive
Insight
Liemandt: Fairly beating parents in competition is the greatest student motivator
“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.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 18:15 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: Software buyout firm saw $20B pipeline of distressed SaaS deals
“I saw twenty billion dollars of pipeline companies that were, they were looking at about splitting the cash flows buying for a dollar.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 49:51 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: 46% of Alpha School students prefer school over vacation
“Four weeks ago when we surveyed all our kids, 46% of our students said, I would rather go to school than go on vacation.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 31:53 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026
Disclosure
Joe Liemandt invested $1 billion of software wealth into Alpha School
“I put in a billion dollars for my software company as the first payment.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 41:05 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Alpha School bans kindergarten parents from reading 'The Self-Driven Child'
“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 …”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 29:00 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Liemandt: Education Is a Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market with No Competitors
“I'm going to show this is the single best market. If you're an entrepreneur to enter, it's a multi-trillion dollar market with no competitors.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 1:01:14 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Liemandt: Trilogy Has Acquired Hundreds of Companies Since Dot-Com Bust
“So we bought hundreds of companies since then, but it was nothing. This strategy was just like, oh, wow, some companies are really cheap. Why don't we buy some?”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 51:00 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Open · timeframe May 2029
Alpha high schooler will publish as lead researcher in Nature journal
“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.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 58:10 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: Trilogy was the most expensive software in the 1990s
“We were the most expensive software you could buy in the nineties because we also had super high pricing because we're like, they're not going to buy from us unless they have to.”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 5:18 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
May 27, 2026
Insight
Core values are useless unless the exact opposite is also viable
“Which is if you can't say the opposite of it, right? Then it's not on the list. Like, so when we were doing the core values of trilogy in the nineties, I was like, well, we obviously have to have integrity on the list. And he's like, Joe, is there ever a compa…”
Joe Liemandt May 27, 2026 ▶ 33:17 The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
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