Graduate With
A Million Dollars.
Four years. Real businesses. Real revenue. You graduate with a company, and a diploma.
Total Balance
$0
Built On
Alpha School.
Proven Results.
Alpha Founders is built on Alpha School — a pioneer in AI-accelerated education. The model works. The data proves it.
1350+
Average SAT
Across Alpha School students
2hrs
Daily Academics
AI-accelerated, mastery-based
100%
Accredited
Full high school diploma
5yrs
Track Record
Operating since 2021
The Model
Alpha School proved that AI can compress a full day of academics into two hours — without cutting depth. Students consistently outperform traditional schools on standardized tests. Alpha Founders takes that foundation and adds 1,000+ hours of real-world building.
SAT Score
College Readiness
Daily Academic Hours
The Campus
Purpose-built for this program. Dedicated workspace, fitness facilities, and a cohort environment designed for focus. In-person only — because building real businesses requires real presence.
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What Students Have Built
Student-Built Bike Park
Alpha students designed, funded, and built a full-scale bike park from scratch — project management, fundraising, and construction.
Berry Plushy Brand
From concept to commerce — a student launched a physical product brand, handling design, manufacturing, and social media marketing.
Movie Marketing Pioneer
A teen behind a new wave of digital creativity, featured in LA Entertainment Weekly for innovative movie marketing campaigns.
Why Now
One Person With AI Can Do
What Twenty Used To.
A 16-year-old with AI can build what a 20-person team built five years ago. Tools without taste is noise. We teach you to think, sell, and ship.
How It Works
01
AI-Native
Education
Learn to build with AI from day one — not as a novelty, but as a core skill. Vibe coding, AI agents, automation. Master them at 14.
02
World-Class
Mentorship
Founders, operators, and investors who've built what you want to build. Monthly live sessions, direct feedback on your business, real relationships — not guest lectures.
03
Time
Back
2-Hour Learning gives you 1,000+ extra hours per year. Six hours every day traditional school wastes, redirected to building your business.
Network
Work Directly With
The Best in the World.
Elite apprenticeships. Real projects. Weekly mentorship from founders who've built what you want to build.
Codie Sanchez
Contrarian Thinking
Ryan Trahan
Creator Economy
Sahil Bloom
Audience Building
Greg Isenberg
Community-Led Startups
Ben Francis
Gymshark
Emma Chamberlain
Creator & Brand
Dan Shipper
Every
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Bumble
Nikita Bier
TBH / Gas
Bill Gurley
Benchmark
Ryan Holiday
Daily Stoic
David Senra
Founders Podcast
James Clear
Atomic Habits
Shane Parrish
Farnam Street
Eric Jorgenson
Naval Almanack
Alpha Founders
You
For Mentors
Mentor the Most Ambitious
Teenager in the World.
3 months. A valuable project for your business. Dedicated Alpha coaches managing your apprentice. All you do is one call a week.
Your Commitment
- ·Approve a project proposed by your potential apprentice
- ·One 30-min mentoring & feedback call per week
- ·That's it. But more is always welcome.
We Handle
- ·Finding the perfect apprentice for you and your business
- ·Defining a project with them based on your needs
- ·Day-to-day management via dedicated Alpha Founders coaches
Zero Risk
Fire anytime. No obligation. If the student isn't performing, end the apprenticeship whenever you want. No questions asked, no hard feelings. We pre-screen every student through the most selective admissions process in the country, but if it's not working, it's not working.
Sample Project Types
Reaching out doesn't commit you to anything.
Just to being open to a pitch from one of our students once we find a great fit.
Students
Built By
Teenagers.
Real students. Real businesses. Real revenue. Using AI to do things that were impossible two years ago.
Austin Way↗
“I rebuilt $100M of EdTech in 6 weeks. I designed a curriculum to guarantee mastery of AP history, and use 100,000 AI simulated students to run through it daily, refining the curriculum at a pace impossible even 6 months ago.”
Branson Pfeister↗
“I booked $30,000 in the first month of my consulting business. I saw an opportunity to help SMBs implement AI to take over repetitive processes, bringing what I've learned at Alpha to the businesses who need it most.”
Jackson Price
“I'm obsoleting the PC repair industry. After getting ripped off a couple years ago, I trained an AI model to diagnose and repair computer issues on your own machine for a fraction of what the physical repair shops charge. There's no way I could have gone after this industry before.”
Ananya Kakarlapudi
“I'm building a financial literacy tool for teens, and working with schools and banks who want to adopt it. I've been using AI to help with my research, marketing, and to build my sales pipeline, sending it off to work while I study for my APs.”
Curriculum
Academics Are the Easy Part.
The Founders Curriculum Turns You Into a Force of Nature.
Character. Business. AI. Academics. Every day, all four.
Trait Assessment
Revenue
$0
Customers
0
Conv. Rate
0%
Deal Pipeline
Reasoning
Vibe Code
Frontend
Design
Automation
Deploy
Daily Commitment
AI-accelerated, mastery-based
Freshman Year
The Full-Stack
Entrepreneurial Foundation.
Full immersion in entrepreneurship and building. Students leave freshman year with the experience, skills, and mindset to go build a $1M company.
The Four Pillars of Founder Bootcamp
From day one, you're launching real businesses. Every week: generate ideas, pick the best one, run a live market test, get in front of real customers. By the end of freshman year you've launched dozens of ventures, run 30+ validation cycles, and identified the opportunity worth going all-in on.
Hands-on training in the skills that actually move businesses: building with AI, sales, copywriting, virality, design, and financial management. Every skill is applied directly to your live work — no theory, no simulations, no classroom exercises.
3–4 project-based placements with top entrepreneurs, operators, and executives from the Alpha network. Each placement is 6–8 weeks, scoped to a real business problem. You graduate out when your own business demands full attention.
Every week you're in the room with active builders and legendary entrepreneurs — not polished success stories, but how it actually started. Paired with a curated stack of foundational books, articles, and podcasts that compound everything else you're doing.
What students leave with
30+
Real validation cycles run on live business ideas
3–4
Elite apprenticeship completions with top operators
1
Validated business with real customer traction
The goal entering sophomore year: a validated business with traction, a demonstrated skill stack, and the founder mindset and network to go build a $1M company — on a clear path to the Alpha Founders guarantee.
Years 2–4
Pick One.
Scale to a Million.
Sophomore
Commit
- ·One venture, full focus
- ·Build the systems
- ·Run it like a founder
- ·$100K mark
Junior
Scale
- ·First hire
- ·AI does the repeatable
- ·Real cash flow
- ·Runs without you
Senior
Finish
- ·$1M
- ·Investor-ready
- ·Diploma + company
- ·Proof
Daily Structure
Every Day.
Build. Learn. Repeat.
School by 10am. Build until dark.
AFA
Traditional
2h
Academics
5.5h
Building
1,000+
Extra hrs/yr
Academics
AI-accelerated. Mastery-based. Done by 10am.
Mentor Workshop
Weekly sessions. Direct feedback. Real operators.
Lunch
Eat with your cohort. Recharge.
Build
Your business. Your time. Until dark.
Admissions
The Most Selective Admissions Process in the Country.
Earn Your Spot.
Cognitive testing. Academic assessment. AI interview. Four weeks of remote challenges. The field gets cut to 40. Then you prove it in person.
Admissions Steps
The Guarantee
No Million Dollars?
Full Refund. No Questions.
Not aid. Not a scholarship. A bet on you.
One person with AI can build what used to take twenty. A teenager can build what used to take a decade.
If you don't hit it, we failed. Full refund.
Fit
Be Honest.
Is This For You?
Apply If You
- →You've started something. Even if it broke.
- →School feels like a speed limit
- →You want proof, not a credential
- →Cold calls and late nights don't scare you
- →You plan to exceed every expectation
Don't Apply If You
- ×You want a normal high school
- ×You think this is a shortcut
- ×You need someone managing your time
- ×You think AI replaces effort
- ×You can't handle failing in public
Questions
Frequently Asked
Yes. In person. Built on Alpha School's campus.
$1M in profit. Real money. Full refund if you don't hit it.
9th–12th. First class: Fall 2026.
AI-accelerated academics. Two hours a day. The rest is yours.
Yes. Fully accredited. College is an option — but you might not need it.
Founder Bootcamp gives you the skills, apprenticeships, and a validated business. Then three years scaling toward $1M.
Yes. The standard protects the cohort.
CCAT + MAPS + AI interview, then The Forge (4 weeks remote, field cut to 40), then The Arena (in person, 1 month, rolling eliminations). Anyone still standing earns their spot.
If you're exceptional, we'll find a way. Don't let tuition stop you.
Yes. Relocate and show up. In-person only.
For parents
For Parents.
What You Need To Know.
Yes. Fully accredited. AI-accelerated academics consistently produce 1350+ SAT scores. The learning is compressed, not cut.
Top test scores. A portfolio of real businesses. These are the strongest applicants in the country. Many won't need to go. A company with revenue changes the math.
Full refund if they don't hit $1M by graduation. We only accept students we believe will.
Cohort of 20. Dedicated mentors. Structured wellness. Intense by design. The ones who thrive here already feel held back.
They leave. The skills go with them.