Here's my conversation with @Austen Allred, founder of GauntletAI, Bloomtech, and formerly Lambda School. (0:00) Why Build Schools? The Origin of Training 1% Engineers (3:42) Why Edtech? Why Fix Education? (7:18) College Dropout to Education Builder (12:35) Impact Comparison: Gauntlet vs Previous Projects (16:22) Why Don't More Entrepreneurs Attack Broken Education? (21:08) The Gauntlet Model: Aligning All Incentives (26:45) Fixing Lambda's Problems with Better Incentive Design (31:20) Graduation and Job Placement Numbers (35:17) Scalability: Vocational AI Education Across Disciplines (40:55) Is Gauntlet a Real Higher Education Alternative? (44:30) Non-Education Education: The Power of Self Learning (48:36) Alpha School and Setting High Expectations (52:24) Agency Induction and High Agency Filtering (53:05) Why 80 to 100 Hours Per Week Matters (54:35) Finding the Weird Island of Misfits (55:14) Austin's Education Revolution and the Tech Connection (57:00) The Great Man Theory and Building the Future @gauntletai