Joe Liemandt
Serial entrepreneur who founded Trilogy Software and now backs Alpha School, an AI-powered K-12 education model.
“The Academy has raised $42 million from a16z and a group of individual investors, including Adam D'Angelo, Tobi Lütke, Tony Xu, Fidji Simo, Garry Tan, Joe Liemandt and Shyam Sankar.”
“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→“It's a multi-trillion dollar market with no competitors.”
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→“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→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.