Why We Built This
The Schober family has been in Minnesota for nearly a century — Matt’s great-grandfather Gus helped build Robbinsdale, the first suburb of Minneapolis. Four generations later the trade is the same one it always was: buy something, fix it, put it to work, and let the next person stand on it. The Academy exists because the two skills that compound fastest right now — founding something, and working with machines that keep getting smarter — are not reliably taught anywhere a student can also afford to sleep. Founding is learned by selling something, not by reading about selling. Working with intelligent machines is learned by building with them while they are still changing underneath you. So we did the simple thing: a house near the schools, a private room a student can actually rent, and ten hours a week with someone who has done it before.
