An academy for unusually
ambitious young people.
Learn from people shaping the world.
Fei-Fei LiProfessor at Stanford
Naval RavikantCo-founder of AngelList
Brian ArmstrongCEO of Coinbase
Sam AltmanFounder of OpenAI
Jensen HuangCEO of NVIDIA
Marc AndreessenCo-founder of a16z
Yuval Noah HarariAuthor of Sapiens
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Mark ZuckerbergFounder of Meta
Alex KarpCEO of Palantir
Longer Full NameFounder & CEO of Organization
Larry PageCo-founder of Google
Tobi LütkeCEO of Shopify
Dylan FieldCEO of Figma
Amjad MasadCEO of Replit
Aravind SrinivasCEO of Perplexity
Yann LeCunChief AI Scientist at Meta
Celine HaliouaCEO of Loyal
Ivan ZhaoCEO of Notion- 100+ moreExplore the network
Build, work, and learn in San Francisco.
- Work a co-op at a partner company.
- Build your own company, research project, film, or software.
- Take courses with people shaping technology, science, and business.
- Pursue an independent project abroad.
On campus in San Francisco, taking courses with people shaping technology, science and business.
Monday, August 31 / Example week 1
A day at the Academy.
Your days leave room to go deep on your work, learn from teachers and mentors, and spend time with your peers.
Build your project
Lunch with your friends
Fireside chat with a founder
Build your project
Office hour with your mentors
We’re looking for you.
Maybe you were the person who couldn’t wait for school to end so you could get back home to building something. Maybe you were teaching yourself to code, starting a company, making films, running events, conducting research, or obsessing over something you can’t stop thinking about.
If this sounds like you, you’ll be in good company.
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Diwen Huang
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Diwen Huang
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Elle Liemandt
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Idhant Ranjan
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Diwen Huang
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Idhant Ranjan
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Diwen Huang
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Elle Liemandt
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Idhant Ranjan
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Partners to help you build and get to work.
Our founding partners give students tools and credits to build. Our hiring partners offer co-op opportunities to put their skills to work.
Live in San Francisco.
The Academy is residential because the people around you matter as much as the material you study.
You will live and work alongside a small cohort of unusually driven peers, in a city where some of the most consequential technology companies and research labs in the world are being built.
San Francisco becomes an extension of the Academy: the people you meet, the companies you visit, the conversations you stumble into, and the ideas circulating through the city.
What will you pursue?
Bring your obsessions, your unfinished ideas, the questions you can’t leave alone, and the things you have already started.
We’ll give you exceptional peers, extraordinary teachers, access to a remarkable network, and room to pursue them seriously.