Joe Liemandt

Alpha School, it's a high-end private school.

It's expanding across the country, but at its core is redefining what school can be for kids and what makes a great school.

I'm a product guy.

Looking at it from a product aspect, how can you rebuild school and make it awesome?

And so the core of it, we look at five things of like, how do you build a great school?

And the first is kids must love school.

That's just a crazy thought that most people do not believe you.

And our standard is we want to build it so the kids want to go to school instead of going on vacation.

a highlight is I've been principal now for three years.

McKinsey started it 10 years ago.

I came on three years ago.

But about two months ago, our high school kids sent us a note and they said, hey, can we not take summer break?

Because we're loving what we're doing so much.

We want to continue through it.

And so it's sort of a peak.

Right.

And I was one of those kids who definitely did not like school.

I dropped out of college and then high school, I got in trouble because I skipped school all the time.

And so this is a different world for me.

Second part of it is just on learning.