Comms consultant and strategic advisor helping the most ambitious founders & companies tell their story.
Austin, TX
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Being delusional is a core part of entrepreneurship. Don't ever let anyone tell you to "be realistic."
lol, get out of here with that nonsense.
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Austin has become "education innovation" mecca...
- Alpha School
- UATX
- GauntletAI
All founded in Austin, Texas. Why?
P.S. I'm hosting an event in Austin on Monday for students/parents interested in The Horowitz Andreessen Academy!
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ATX ladies 🤠: @kaleighf and I are speaking at the Women + AI event in Austin next week; would love to see you there!
Tix:
luma.com/womenai-d02m
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Cristin Culver retweeted
"@TownAI founder & CEO @jgreze predicted that within a year, people will spend 40% of their digital time at work using an assistant instead of directly accessing apps and websites, and that that figure would reach 90% within five years.
He sees assistants as business applications, though, calling the consumer business 'a market to zero' because regular people rarely pay for software."
JDG served the takes (and swear words) at Machine Earning with @EricNewcomer 🔥newcomer.co/p/machine-earnin…
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Cristin Culver retweeted
A transformation in higher ed is underway.
Ken Griffin's investment to bring @CarnegieMellon to Miami is a game changer for South Florida and the latest innovative effort to equip young Americans with the skills to thrive in the modern economy.
From @a16z's Horowitz Andreessen Academy to @PalantirTech's Meritocracy Fellowship, industry is doing what our education system should have done long ago: building non-traditional pathways that prepare young people to solve our nation's hardest problems.
America’s technical colleges should operate with this same reform-minded energy to modernize their programs, expand flexibility for students, and make two-year school cool again.
Hedge-fund titan Ken Griffin is donating $2 billion to start a Carnegie Mellon University campus in Miami, part of the largest-ever individual gift toward higher education on.wsj.com/4AGpvMq
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Two truths here:
1. I love this, it’s so effing entertaining
2. Please nobody try to emulate or media train anyone using this clip. Karp is 1 of 1. A singular talent.
“I love when you guys ask me these questions.”
“They’re stupid as shit.”
“I’ll give you my question.”
— Palantir CEO Alex Karp 🐐
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Vibes are the currency of comms.
You can have the best comms team in the world (like Anthropic does!!) but your vibes will always do the talking.
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One of the (many) benefits of many decades of experience is I can confidently tell my client "not to interrupt their competitor while they're making a mistake."
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It takes a Herculean amount of effort to make something look effortless on the Internet.
Ending the week grateful for the team behind @theacademysf launch, and for how well it was received.
Some BTS shots of the magic being made:
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Gagan has a habit of looking at how people learn and deciding he needs to rebuild it.
Udemy. Maven. Now Horowitz Andreessen Academy. @theacademysf is his third swing, and most ambitious yet.
Loved this conversation on the road to get here with new media star @LubaYudasina
a16z (@a16z) is now in the school business.
The Horowitz Andreessen Academy (@theacademysf) launched with $42M, Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) and Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) on the board, and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, Anduril, Coinbase, Palantir, Meta and Replit as founding partners.
I walked with the Founder and CEO, Gagan Biyani (@gaganbiyani) to learn more about the vision and why he’s the best person to lead it.
We talk about:
- Starting a debate camp at 13 with 50% margins
- Seven jobs, three years, rarely in class at UC Berkeley
- Why most professors "don't care about teaching"
- Leadership lessons learned at Udemy and Sprig
- Why the best builders will pick a16z over MIT or Harvard
- 50 founding students, tuition-free
- The call from Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) that started the Academy
- Ten meetings with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
- Why Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) keeps telling him "I leave that to you"
TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Trailer
(01:01) Gagan Biyani, Founder & CEO, Horowitz Andreessen Academy
(02:23) A one-year fellowship built around building, not class
(03:55) The three skills that are AI proof
(08:16) Grandparents from Rajasthan who never finished high school
(09:31) Starting a debate camp at 13 with 50% margins
(12:59) Why schools are afraid of student agency
(18:33) Seven jobs, three years, and rarely going to class
(18:46) Why most professors don't care about teaching
(25:41) What Udemy and Maven taught him
(33:32) Raising $60M at Sprig, shutting down, and getting backed again
(38:16) Why raising VC at 18 is a ten-year commitment
(39:21) The call from Andrew Chen that started the Academy
(41:18) Why the best builders will pick a16z over MIT or Harvard
(43:17) 50 founding students, tuition-free
(45:46) Why a Harvard dropout means nothing to him
(51:42) Outro
Full episode: youtu.be/vmprTdld5X4
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Cristin Culver retweeted
a16z (@a16z) is now in the school business.
The Horowitz Andreessen Academy (@theacademysf) launched with $42M, Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) and Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) on the board, and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, Anduril, Coinbase, Palantir, Meta and Replit as founding partners.
I walked with the Founder and CEO, Gagan Biyani (@gaganbiyani) to learn more about the vision and why he’s the best person to lead it.
We talk about:
- Starting a debate camp at 13 with 50% margins
- Seven jobs, three years, rarely in class at UC Berkeley
- Why most professors "don't care about teaching"
- Leadership lessons learned at Udemy and Sprig
- Why the best builders will pick a16z over MIT or Harvard
- 50 founding students, tuition-free
- The call from Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) that started the Academy
- Ten meetings with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
- Why Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) keeps telling him "I leave that to you"
TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Trailer
(01:01) Gagan Biyani, Founder & CEO, Horowitz Andreessen Academy
(02:23) A one-year fellowship built around building, not class
(03:55) The three skills that are AI proof
(08:16) Grandparents from Rajasthan who never finished high school
(09:31) Starting a debate camp at 13 with 50% margins
(12:59) Why schools are afraid of student agency
(18:33) Seven jobs, three years, and rarely going to class
(18:46) Why most professors don't care about teaching
(25:41) What Udemy and Maven taught him
(33:32) Raising $60M at Sprig, shutting down, and getting backed again
(38:16) Why raising VC at 18 is a ten-year commitment
(39:21) The call from Andrew Chen that started the Academy
(41:18) Why the best builders will pick a16z over MIT or Harvard
(43:17) 50 founding students, tuition-free
(45:46) Why a Harvard dropout means nothing to him
(51:42) Outro
Full episode: youtu.be/vmprTdld5X4
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To believe this about comms and media in 2026 is a wild way to live your life.
love competing against these people, btw 😉.
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The lighting was terrible but the vibes were immaculate.
Big kudos to @brycestrauss @ @Nominal_io, @CaitlinCloud9 @ @SiliconVlyBank & @pax for an amazing Austin Hard Tech Week party last night.
The future is being built in Austin! 🤠
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