Andreessen Horowitz Launches San Francisco Tech Academy for High School Graduates
Andreessen Horowitz has launched a full-time San Francisco tech academy for high school graduates, with Nvidia, OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic as founding partners.
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has launched a full-time technology academy in San Francisco, positioning it as an alternative to college for young people aiming at careers in technology and entrepreneurship.
The school, named the Horowitz Andreessen Academy (HAA), is a private, in-person institution for students who have completed high school. The firm described it as a full-time programme built around the needs of aspiring technology entrepreneurs.
Nvidia, OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic are among the founding partners. Students may also find opportunities to work with other partners, including Anduril, Coinbase, Google, Palantir, Replit and Stripe, along with additional hiring partners.
Courses will be taught by industry practitioners and will cover frontier systems, the evolution and innovations of digital computing from 1940 to 2025, the craft of selling, modern software development and AI inference engineering.
The academy plans to bring prominent technology executives and entrepreneurs to its campus for lectures. Among those named are Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Travis Kalanick, Mira Murati, Ali Ghodsi and Patrick Collison.
Beyond coursework, students will be required to pursue one or more projects developed with coaches, mentors and visiting experts. The programme is designed to give them direct access to entrepreneurs, investors and industry experts whose work they study. Projects could include spending three weeks in a different country, with the academy connecting students to relevant people on arrival.
The firm said networks, access and interpersonal skills would form a central part of the curriculum, citing the popularity of negotiation and interpersonal dynamics courses at leading business schools as evidence of demand for such training.