The Academy for unusually ambitious young people.

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Learn from the people shaping the future.

  • Sam Altman
    Sam AltmanCo-founder & CEO, OpenAI
  • Jensen Huang
    Jensen HuangCo-founder & CEO, NVIDIA
  • Fei-Fei Li
    Fei-Fei LiCo-Founder & CEO, World Labs
  • Travis Kalanick
    Travis KalanickCo-founder, Uber
  • Andre Iguodala
    Andre Iguodala4× NBA Champion & Investor
  • Patrick Collison
    Patrick CollisonCo-Founder & CEO, Stripe
  • Agnes Callard
    Agnes CallardPhilosopher & Author
  • Andrew Huberman
    Andrew HubermanNeuroscientist, Huberman Lab
  • Naval Ravikant
    Naval RavikantCo-Founder, AngelList
  • Mira Murati
    Mira MuratiCEO, Thinking Machines
  • Tyler Cowen
    Tyler CowenEconomist
  • Satya Nadella
    Satya NadellaChairman & CEO, Microsoft
  • Fidji Simo
    Fidji SimoFormer CEO, Instacart
  • Dylan Field
    Dylan FieldCo-Founder & CEO, Figma
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Build, work, and learn in San Francisco.

MonWedFri

Monday, August 31

A day at The Academy.

Spend your days building, exchanging ideas with classmates, and learning from teachers and mentors who help you take your work further.

Build a humanoid robot
Lunch with your friends
Fireside chat with Sam Altman
Independent study on calligraphy

For people who would rather be building.

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 couldn’t stop thinking about.

If this sounds like you, you’ll be in good company. Meet some of our early applicants and see what they’re working on.

Idhant Ranjan

Co-built an app that turns thoughts into speech in real time

Vivian Liu

Grew a non-profit to 300+ chapters and 7000+ volunteers

Darsh Shrivastava

Raised $100K for his enzyme engineering startup

Lorena Pachiardi

Designed, printed, and donated low-cost prosthetic arms

Tycho Young

Designed and built a 6-axis robot arm from scratch

Paul Estrada

Built an AI book indexer with six-figure ARR

Elle Liemandt

Created an AI dating coach with 1.7M likes

Aaron Prager

Won the Congressional App Challenge for his diabetes app/community

Diwen Huang

Built a sports app used by 83K players

Idhant Ranjan

Co-built an app that turns thoughts into speech in real time

Vivian Liu

Grew a non-profit to 300+ chapters and 7000+ volunteers

Darsh Shrivastava

Raised $100K for his enzyme engineering startup

Lorena Pachiardi

Designed, printed, and donated low-cost prosthetic arms

Tycho Young

Designed and built a 6-axis robot arm from scratch

Paul Estrada

Built an AI book indexer with six-figure ARR

Elle Liemandt

Created an AI dating coach with 1.7M likes

Aaron Prager

Won the Congressional App Challenge for his diabetes app/community

Diwen Huang

Built a sports app used by 83K players

Idhant Ranjan

Co-built an app that turns thoughts into speech in real time

Vivian Liu

Grew a non-profit to 300+ chapters and 7000+ volunteers

Darsh Shrivastava

Raised $100K for his enzyme engineering startup

Lorena Pachiardi

Designed, printed, and donated low-cost prosthetic arms

Tycho Young

Designed and built a 6-axis robot arm from scratch

Paul Estrada

Built an AI book indexer with six-figure ARR

Elle Liemandt

Created an AI dating coach with 1.7M likes

Aaron Prager

Won the Congressional App Challenge for his diabetes app/community

Diwen Huang

Built a sports app used by 83K players

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Partners to help you build and get to work.

Our founding partners help co-create the curriculum, provide access to hardware and compute, and open their network and knowledge for hands-on learning. Hiring partners provide opportunities for Academy students to be considered for internships and full-time roles.

Founding partners
Anduril
Anthropic
Coinbase
Google
Meta
NVIDIA
OpenAI
Palantir
Replit
Stripe
Hiring partners
Abridge
Amca
Applied Intuition
Arc
Aven
Base Power Company
Boom Supersonic
Brilliant
Castelion
Clay
Cognition
Databricks
Decagon
EliseAI
Etched
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Live in San Francisco.

San Francisco will shape who you become and what you build. You’ll live alongside your classmates, leading technology companies, research labs, and the highest density of founders and innovators in the world.

San Francisco is an extension of the campus: come enjoy the city’s energy, culture, museums, cafés, and restaurants. There is no better place to figure out what you want to make of your life.

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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.

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