{"slug": "nycs-ai-powered-private-schools-second-location-guarantees-students-will-with", "title": "NYC’s AI-powered private school’s second location guarantees students will graduate with million-dollar business", "summary": "Alpha School, an AI-powered private school in New York City, has launched a second location called Founders School that guarantees students will graduate with a business valued at $1 million or refunds their $150,000 annual tuition. The school uses AI to compress academics into three hours daily, freeing time for students to build companies. Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is among its supporters.", "body_md": "# NYC’s AI-powered private school’s second location guarantees students will graduate with million-dollar business\n\nSee more of our coverage in your search results.\n\n[Add Page Six on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=pagesix.com)\n\nWho needs a childhood when you can have preferred stock?\n\nPage Six hears that [Alpha School](https://pagesix.com/2026/04/30/lifestyle/ai-powered-private-school-reveals-40k-hamptons-summer-camp-offering-omakase-classes-trojan-horse-workshop/) — the “AI-powered” school that, as we’ve reported, runs a summer camp featuring omakase classes and “life skills” like building Trojan horses — has launched a second school where students are guaranteed to graduate with a million-dollar business.\n\nAnd all the Mini Musks have to do is build their business daily “until dark.” The original Alpha — which counts hedgie legend Bill Ackman among its supporters — figures that its “mastery-based, AI driven approach allows students to crush their academics” in hours, with the rest of the day focused on “team-based workshops” and fostering qualities such as “grit.”\n\nIts new spinoff, Founders School, uses the “extra” time freed up by the AI-optimized curriculum to help kids build a business. And if it doesn’t hit a $1 million valuation by graduation, the school says it’ll refund your tuition — which runs you $150,000 a year.\n\n“Alpha School proved that AI can compress a full day of academics into three hours while consistently outperforming traditional schools on standardized tests,” its website claims.\n\n“Founders School adds 1,000+ hours per year of hands-on entrepreneurial experience on top.”\n\nThe New York City high school promises pupils will “learn to think, sell, and ship, harnessing AI to futureproof [their] skills and career.”\n\nThe school says that by the end of the first year, students will have a business worth more than $50,000, and by sophomore year they’ll be ready to hire their first staff members. By the end of 10th grade, they say the company will run without its “founder.”\n\nThe school says kids will be done with classes by 11 a.m., and that — somewhat ominously — they can work on their companies “until dark.” Baby burnout!\n\nWe previously reported on Alpha’s $40,500 summer camp where “every afternoon opens up into hands-on workshops where kids build, move, pitch, create, and do things that seem impossible.”", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nycs-ai-powered-private-schools-second-location-guarantees-students-will-with", "canonical_source": "https://pagesix.com/2026/07/01/lifestyle/nycs-ai-powered-private-schools-second-location-guarantees-students-will-graduate-with-million-dollar-business/", "published_at": "2026-07-01 10:33:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-01 10:55:32.907552+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-startups", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Alpha School", "Founders School", "Bill Ackman", "New York City"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nycs-ai-powered-private-schools-second-location-guarantees-students-will-with", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nycs-ai-powered-private-schools-second-location-guarantees-students-will-with.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nycs-ai-powered-private-schools-second-location-guarantees-students-will-with.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nycs-ai-powered-private-schools-second-location-guarantees-students-will-with.jsonld"}}