People are mad. People are good.

Unf^cking Education, no. 2.

June 22, 2025

Hi there,

So the School of Entrepreneuring has a website. (well, more like a landing page)

We believe young people are chronically underestimated and so are building an educational model to develop students that:

  • Take agency: They don't wait to be told what to do

  • Embrace failure: They treat setbacks as feedback

  • Think independently: They question rather than memorize

  • Navigate ambiguity: They thrive in uncertainty

School #1 will be live in 2026.

(Sign up. Tell your friends. Tell your enemies)

The hate feeds me

So I’ve been tickled and amused by the criticism I’ve started to get exclusively from those in the current Education Industrial Complex.

The 'stay in your lane' mentality is exactly why we're still using a factory model designed for the industrial age and 2/3 of high schoolers are disengaged.

  • Blockbuster dismissed Netflix.

  • Taxis dismissed Uber.

  • BlackBerry dismissed the iPhone.

Change rarely comes from incumbents.

We tried to acquire a private school

On LinkedIn, I’d shared that we looked at acquiring private schools after seeing Cognita and Nord Anglia do it, but we realized that it wasn’t a good fit for 5 reasons:

  1. The model mismatch

  2. Legacy drag

  3. Underinvested infrastructure

  4. Wrong playbook

  5. Unsophisticated/delusional sellers

We remain open to in the right cases, but we’ve now turned our attention primarily to rezoning existing buildings (no greenfield development).

More detail in the LI post.

People are good

We give $1000 grants to middle and high school entrepreneurs via the Formidable Fellowship, a non-profit that my friend Raj and I launched late last year.

It’s been awesome to see founders & CEOs reach out unsolicited to help grantees.

  • Steve Gatena, CEO of Pray.com, reached out to see if they could promote grantee Claire Warta’s Christian keychain business in their newsletter that goes to millions.

  • The founder of 1800-Got-Junk reached out to see if he could help HS senior and grantee, Lincoln Snyder, grow his $100k gutter cleaning/power washing biz.

I love seeing founders wanting to pay it forward to the next gen of builders.

This is how it is done.

We recently gave a $1000 grant to high schoolers Aden and Ian, the founders of ChatARV, an AI app to help wholesale real estate professionals.

I didn’t even know what the heck that industry is.

As the Gen Z’ers say, these young entrepreneurs are totally cracked (did I do that right?).

This next gen will be the most entrepreneurial we’ve ever had (if we let them).

Alright, that’s enough for today.

Have the best week ever.

Love,

Anand

P.S. I sent the last newsletter 3 weeks ago so I’m getting a bit more regular. And now at almost 1100 subscribers. The movement is building.

P.P.S. I’d love to hear from you. Hit me up at [email protected]