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Why a16z is Building a New School for the AI Era | Ben Horowitz

aired Sep 22, 2026 · 43.0m
Signal
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Solid
confidence 0.99
Orig53.8
Actn100.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty67.7
Summary

This should be the greatest time in the history of humanity to be young. And one of the findings was that it's the generation that has the highest variance and fragmentation across the board.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, kind, including: This is like Thomas Edison's time or Henry Ford's time or so forth.

Key takeaways
  1. 01This should be the greatest time in the history of humanity to be young
  2. 02And one of the findings was that it's the generation that has the highest variance and fragmentation across the board
  3. 03We're building a new school for the AI era, and that means redesigning everything
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