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I think describing this idea on paper sounds a bit crazy but visual representation shows that it accutly isn't and it's entierly possible to build it.

Why

Detailed explanation is in my essay From Moonshots to Madness, but very briefly, I think that education is one of the most important things for society to function well, and at the same time it is the most broken thing in the western world right now. Following Sam's advice , I spend a lot of time thinking about what to work on to have the maximal possible positive impact, and I think that education is the perfect intersection between things I like, I'm good at, and I'm excited about.

Also, it seems to me that almost nobody in Silicon Valley is working on it because they are all super smart and received very decent education and don't see how broken the education system is outside of the elite universities. Perhapts, education might sound a little "boring and not ambitious enough" for a lot of hackers, or I don't know, something else must be very unappealing in it because I really don't understand why nobody has fixed it yet.

Right now our world seems very broken (homeless everywhere, 10k different crises, increasing number of wars), and most efficient way to fix it is to produce 100x more hackers than we have now and make them 10x smarter than the average hacker now. The only way to do that is to build a super efficient education machine that runs at unprecedented scale and unimaginable efficiency from today's perspective. To achieve that, we need to combine the scale of collaboration from the open source world and the efficiency of AI.

How

Again, detail explentaion is in the Masterplan and Homebrew Manifesto but the essane is this:

1. Dominate a small market
2. Dominate IT education
3. Dominate education, bunkrupt Harvard and build Giga Campus 1
4. While doing all that, also de-moronize society and rebuild Hackers culture

Why now / why me

I have been extremely lucky to be at university at the right time because Chat-GPT was released exactly in the middle of my university years, so I understand why the traditional education model based on writing essays made sense before AI and why it doesn't make any sense now. In my second year, I tried to build a better LMS (learning management system, like Canvas, BlackBoard, etc.) because our solution was sucked. Fortunately, my university wasn't interested in it, and YC rejected that idea, but I learned a ton while for around 6 months I was designing it and talking with hundreds of students about their problems with the current LMS. During that process, I realized how broken education is and how little universities care about their users, and I realised that I'm able to build something much better than they could ever imagine. So, I learned coding, built the MVP 1.0 for my dissertation titled "Can AI Teach Better Than Harvard?" and now I'm building MVP 2.0 to enable startups to build their own colleges (something like nextjs.org/learn but 10x better) to educate their users better and grow faster.

Core idea

It might be obvious to me because I spend so much time thinking about this, but to make sure that I'm crystal clear here about the structure:

Homebrew is a platform for education but doesn't produce any educational content (at least for now).

Colleges - Like on YouTube, where everyone can start their own channel, on Homebrew, everyone can start their own college—both companies and individuals.

I build a Vercel College as an example