Joe Limont
Joe Liemandt is a software entrepreneur and education reformer who serves as principal of Alpha School, a private K-12 school that uses AI-driven tutoring to deliver academics in roughly two hours per day. He is best known as the founder of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital, having become one of the youngest members of the Forbes 400 after dropping out of Stanford in 1989. At Alpha School, he focuses on a mastery-based, motivation-driven education model that emphasizes earning back time for students to pursue projects and life skills.
“I think he's put like a billion dollars of his own money into it”
Source→“He's taking kids that are failing students to top of the class in three months. Meeting them where they're at and solving the motivation gap and like making learning fun and cool.”
Source→“Joe Lamont has created the schools, he says 90% or 80% motivation... you have games, you have other things that the kids can do that they learn from and enjoy doing and they want to do more.”
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