The Elite Private High School Where Students Earn A Million Dollars: [Nat Eliason of Founder School

​Nat Eliason is back on the podcast.​ After a decade of entrepreneurship, Nat made a surprising decision: he took a job. He's joining ​Alpha School​ to help launch ​Founders School​, a new high school with an audacious promise: students will either build a million-dollar business by graduation or get their tuition refunded. It's awesome. Founder School combines Alpha's AI-powered education with focused business training from world-class mentors. Students complete their academics in just a few hours each morning, then spend the rest of the day building businesses, learning sales, working with mentors, and developing real expertise in real-world skills. This conversation explores a much bigger question than entrepreneurship: what happens when we stop treating ambitious teenagers like children and start giving them the tools, responsibility, and freedom to build something meaningful immediately? If you're interested in education, AI, entrepreneurship, or unlocking human potential, this episode is for you. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 03:27 - Nat joins Alpha School to launch Founder School 04:11 - The million-dollar business guarantee 04:44 - Why no program like this exists yet 09:09 - How AI tutors compress academics into three hours 13:00 - Teenagers are capable of real work 15:27 - The Alpha School platform and expansion model 25:35 - Founder School's September 2026 launch 29:21 - Reproducing Stanford's entrepreneurial advantages 38:00 - Year one curriculum: sales first 48:28 - Building expertise and avoiding hustle culture 53:42 - The institutional skin in the game 56:22 - Who's applying and the $150K tuition 01:01:04 - Ten-year vision: 10,000 students across ten campuses 01:08:04 - How to learn more and get involved Link to audio: https://kite.link/smartfriends104yt Links: Eric Jorgenson LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/erjorgenson Twitter / X — https://x.com/EricJorgenson Website — https://www.ejorgenson.com/ Nat Eliason LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/nateliason/ Twitter / X — https://twitter.com/nateliason Website — https://www.nateliason.com/ Alpha School — https://alpha.school/ Founder School — https://founders.school