Joe Liemandt
Serial entrepreneur who founded Trilogy Software and now backs Alpha School, an AI-powered K-12 education model.
“It's a multi-trillion dollar market with no competitors.”
Source→“Our claim to fame actually in the 90s, it was the first AI product to sell a billion dollars.”
Source→“We have a building with a few hundred people in Austin who get more hundreds on the Texas Star than a school district of 100,000.”
Source→“Our baseball team just won national championship, the IMG, if you know, right? Our basketball team is number one. You know, our academics are 10 times better than IMGs.”
Source→“And so we're working on, you know, I don't know if you've heard of Founders School yet that we're building for high school.”
Source→“One of the most important hires I ever made is this guy, Jim Abel, who was my head of HR. Who would coach me through a lot of this where I started very much as high standards, low support.”
Source→“McKinsey's like, come on over to Alpha. And I'm like, I'm not going to your weird school... She convinced my two daughters to spend a week... They came home after the week. They're like, Dad, I don't want to go to summer camp. We want to go back to Alpha.”
Source→“I haven't seen the last pipeline. Laugh around, but I saw $20 billion of pipeline companies that were, they were looking at, about splitting the cash flows and buying for a dollar.”
Source→“I saw $20 billion of pipeline companies that were, they were looking at, about splitting the cash flows and buying for a dollar.”
Source→“The last 12 months have completely changed. They're like, oh my God, AI is here. Guys aren't going to last at all. The last thing I want to do is write a big check in hopes they can reboot for AI.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.