Our profile of @jliemandt — founder of Trilogy and ESW, and now principal (and backer) of the much discussed Alpha School Joe was a wunderkind in the 90’s, but hasn’t spoken publicly in 25 years. He’s willing now, because along with @mackenzieprice, he wants to end the industrial era education system and usher in the AI education era. To give you a taste, here’s the opening of our story, a masterpiece by @JeremySternLA “Even after agreeing to break his silence after 25 years, Joe Liemandt is still reluctant to talk about himself. It’s hard to get him to relive Trilogy, the enterprise software company he founded in 1989, which by age 27 put him on the cover of Forbes, twice, as America’s youngest self-made centimillionaire. He isn’t keen to expound on SalesBuilder, Trilogy’s flagship expert system from the 1990s and the world’s first billion-dollar artificial intelligence product in all but name. Ditto ESW, the investment arm of Trilogy that’s acquired hundreds of software companies since 2000 and helped make him a decabillionaire, yet the mention of which makes the otherwise inexhaustible Liemandt, who always seems to be straining at some invisible leash, seem drowsy and bored... The one thing Liemandt will talk about for hours on end is Alpha School: the teacherless, homeworkless, K-12 private school in Austin, Texas, where students have been testing in the top 0.1% nationally by self-directing coursework with AI tutoring apps for two hours a day.” I suspect Alpha will become an extremely important points of discussion in the country, and this will help you understand how it came to be. And, if you have kids, it will make you wonder if they are being educated in the best possible way, or not.