The Horowitz Andreessen Academy Launches in San Francisco for High School Graduates

The Horowitz Andreessen Academy Launches in San Francisco for High School Graduates The Horowitz Andreessen Academy (HAA) has been announced as a private, full-time, in-person institution in San Francisco designed for young individuals graduating from high school. The program aims to adapt education to an era defined by artificial intelligence through practical experience, industry mentorship, and dedicated peer networks. HAA is an in-person, full-time school in San Francisco tailored for post-high school students. The learning model is structured around three components: co-op work placements, courses taught by industry figures, and personal student pursuits. Founding and hiring partner companies providing work opportunities include Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. Applications are open for the institution's Founding Class Fellowship. Educational Structure: Co-ops, Courses, and Pursuits The Academy's framework focuses on three pillars. Co-ops offer year-round work rotations across various roles and companies, including founding partners such as NVIDIA, OpenAI, Meta, and Stripe. Courses are taught by startup founders, investors, and authors, focusing on topics like Frontier Systems, The Craft of Selling, and AI Inference Engineering, alongside soft skills like negotiations and interpersonal dynamics. Pursuits center on independent ventures, research, or travel projects developed with mentors and guest speakers. Role of San Francisco and In-Person Networks The institution is situated in San Francisco to leverage the city's accessible tech network and culture of direct access to industry leaders. The academy emphasizes an in-person campus environment, arguing that while young builders connect through online spaces like Discord and hackathons, physical proximity is necessary to replicate the low-stakes testing ground of traditional college, helping students discover long-term collaborators and co-founders.

Horowitz Andreessen Academy在旧金山成立：面向高中毕业生的全日制实体学院 Horowitz Andreessen Academy（HAA）宣布在旧金山成立，这是一所面向高中毕业生的全日制线下私立学院，旨在通过企业实践、顶尖课程与个人项目探索培养下一代创新人才。 学院采用全日制、实体教学模式，校址设在旧金山，面向刚从高中毕业的年轻人招生。 核心教学体系由三大支柱构成：全年企业轮岗实践（Co-ops）、行业先锋执教的课程（Courses）以及个人探索与创业项目（Pursuits）。 创立合作及招聘伙伴包括Anduril、Anthropic、Coinbase、Google、Meta、NVIDIA、OpenAI、Palantir、Replit和Stripe等科技企业。 三大核心培养支柱与课程设计 学院教学围绕三大支柱展开：Co-ops为学生提供全年而非仅限暑期的企业轮岗实习机会；Courses由独角兽创始人、投资人和教材作者直接讲授，涵盖前沿系统、计算史、销售技能、现代软件开发和AI推理工程，并融入人际动力学与谈判等核心技能；Pursuits则聚焦于学生个人的研究、创业构想或为期数周的海外探索。 线下物理空间与旧金山生态优势 学院强调实体协作是检验合作伙伴和建立深层人际纽带的关键，弥补了线上网络联系松散的不足。校址选在旧金山以借助其高度开放的创业生态，黄仁勋、萨提亚·纳德拉、特拉维斯·卡兰尼克及米拉·穆拉蒂等科技界领袖将作为嘉宾访问并授课。

[America](https://www.a16z.news/t/america) | [Tech](https://www.a16z.news/t/technology) | [Opinion](https://www.a16z.news/t/opinion) | [Culture](https://www.a16z.news/t/culture) | [Charts](https://www.a16z.news/t/charts) *To learn more about The Horowitz Andreessen Academy, watch the a16z Show episode with [Gagan Biyani](https://open.substack.com/users/6497287-gagan-biyani?utm_source=mentions), [Ben Horowitz](https://open.substack.com/users/29473832-ben-horowitz?utm_source=mentions), and [Erik Torenberg](https://open.substack.com/users/532868-erik-torenberg?utm_source=mentions) **[here](https://youtu.be/Z4x71naDx1Q)** and check out the Academy’s website **[here](https://www.theacademysf.com/)**.* The internet made it possible to know anything. AI makes it possible to do anything. We live in an age of infinite knowledge, and we are entering an age of infinite doing. One in which we are constrained only by our creativity. That changes what it means to be educated. It changes what it means to be young. And it demands a new kind of institution. We are thrilled to announce **[The Horowitz Andreessen Academy](https://www.theacademysf.com/)**. HAA is a private, full-time, in-person school in San Francisco for young people coming out of high school. Our mission is to nurture the best young people in the world, and equip them with the tools to shape it. The campus will be humming. Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Travis Kalanick, Mira Murati, Ali Ghodsi, Patrick Collison and countless other luminaries in tech will visit and give lectures. Students will be excitedly sharing their projects, workshopping ideas with their mentors, and constantly pushing their peers. The Academy is for students to both explore and go deep. This materializes in 3 principal ways: Co-ops, Courses, and Pursuits. Co-ops are the opportunity to work during the year (not just over the summer). It can be a rotation program across countless different roles and companies. We want you to have so many work opportunities that you’ve tried everything and directionally know what you like and what you don’t. Or if you know what you like on the first one, you keep doing it. Students may have opportunities to work at our founding partners Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe or any of our hiring partners [here](http://theacademysf.com). Courses are taught by legendary people. Students will study the complete work of individuals and then be speaking with them directly. Our instructors have founded unicorn companies. We also have the investors who invested in those unicorn companies. There will be people who write textbooks. As well as the people the textbooks will be written about. And most importantly, it’s about Pursuits. It’s about personal projects, quests, startup ideas, rabbit holes that define the student experience. At any given point, students will be working on one or multiple Pursuits. It’s what they spend their free time pursuing, what they workshop with their coaches and mentors, and what they talk to guests who host sessions. A pursuit can also be three weeks in a different country, where the Academy will connect you to the right people when you arrive. What are the genuinely hard challenges, assignments, and projects of this era akin to the challenges that once pushed us to our limits? Some of the answers are already visible. The best assignments now are problems so hard they cannot be solved without AI or the opportunity to generate problems that AI cannot yet solve (and their accompanying solutions) to create data sets. The Academy courses follow the same logic and will be taught by world-class leaders. Here’s a sampling: Frontier Systems Origins and Innovations in Digital Computing 1940-2025 The Craft of Selling The Modern Software Developer AI Inference Engineering Networks and access matter. Life skills matter. Ask any GSB student what are the most over-subscribed classes, and they’ll report Interpersonal Dynamics “Touchy Feely” and Paths to Power with Jeffrey Pfeffer. HBS students will talk about Negotiations with Deepak Malhotra and real-world exercises. Classes like these will be central to the HAA curriculum in developing core life skills. San Francisco is meritocratic and accessible in a way that is hard to explain. The doors are literally open. People read cold emails. They read replies and cold DMs. If you can find the address to an event and show up, you will seldom be turned away. The city loves hustlers and rule breakers. And the leaders at the highest level of the tech industry show up every day at every day events. In what other place or what other industry, would you be able to walk up to the equivalents of Jamie Dimon or David Solomon at an event and have a great conversation? Patrick Collison’s advice to his younger self and to those [who are 10-20](https://patrickcollison.com/advice) is to figure out a way to travel to San Francisco and to meet other people who’ve moved there in pursuit of their dreams. It’s WeirdHQ. And that’s why our in-person program cannot be centered anywhere else. Higher education’s most underrated function is that it is a low-stakes environment to test not just ideas but collaborators. Group projects are how you discover who you work well with and countless great founding teams of the last two decades came out of exactly those networks. Think about what college actually compresses. In four years you meet more people, in more contexts, than most people meet in the following twenty. You trade music with the person down the hall and discover a shared obsession. You join a club on a whim and end up running it together. You suffer through difficult homework problems with the same three people until you know exactly who shows up, who quits, and who gets funnier as things get harder. The most talented high school students today might miss this opportunity if they don’t pursue college. When they’re in high school, they rarely have dozens of their sharpest peers within walking distance. Their network is online. In Discord servers, group chats, and hackathon circuits. Those networks are real, but they’re thin. That’s why a physical space to convene after high school matters so much. The next generation will not be taught the way the last one was. They will not work the way the last one did. They will not live in the same world either. The Academy is built for that world. And it begins by bringing the most talented young people from around the world together to San Francisco. If you’re young, hungry and love to build, apply [here](http://www.theacademysf.com) for the Founding Class Fellowship. 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