Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced the creation of the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a selective program designed to prepare young people for careers in Silicon Valley startups. The initiative will be supported by $42 million in funding from a16z and will partner with ten major technology companies, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe.
The one-year program will be free during its initial offering and will accept only 50 students, primarily recent high school graduates. Participants will be required to relocate to San Francisco and secure their own housing arrangements. Rather than traditional academic structures, the curriculum will feature short courses taught by prominent technology executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, alongside paid internship positions at partner companies. The program explicitly will not include conventional grading systems, examinations, or homework assignments.
Students accepted to the academy will receive more than $50,000 in computing credits and a $5,000 budget for travel and research purposes. The program is scheduled to begin in fall 2027. The academy represents another instance of prominent Silicon Valley figures establishing alternative educational institutions, following similar ventures by other billionaires in the tech industry. Andreessen Horowitz co-founders have been vocal critics of traditional higher education institutions in recent years.
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