All 7 Education posts we have indexed from venture capital blogs and newsletters, plus the highest-scoring pieces of the past year and the people who write about it most.
Personal AI agents will monetize agentic commerce through four channels—subscriptions, convenience fees, merchant commissions, and advertising—with take rates likely evolving from ~0.8% (initial payment fees) to 4%+ (full aggregator models) as agents develop deeper merchant relationships and move upmarket.
Inside look at how Danielle Strachman built the Thiel Fellowship's selection process—using unconventional methods like thumbs-up-or-down votes and multi-dimensional evaluation to find high-agency young people, and how the program evolved from an anti-credential to an institution whose acceptance matters as a credential itself.
Librarians possess irreplaceable skills for the AI era—they excel at turning vague information needs into precise queries and evaluating source credibility, while stewarding vast undigitized archives that search engines and AI chatbots cannot reach.
Joe Lonsdale argues that Texas should dismantle the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), a $100M+ nonprofit that captures public funds through dues, insurance pools, and vendor relationships, then uses them to lobby against education reforms and conservative priorities—and proposes a detailed legislative roadmap to reclaim public money and restore accountability.
Two tech bloggers reflect on whether they'd send their kids to the newly launched Horowitz Andreessen Academy, exploring how parenting has reshaped their views on education, resilience, and following intrinsic motivation over credentialing paths.
The Law School Admissions Council has evolved into an exploitative monopoly over law school entry, extracting excessive fees while eroding the integrity of legal education itself.
A16Z (3) · Not Boring (1) · BIG by Matt Stoller (1) · Erik Torenberg (1) · First Round Review (1) · Tanay Jaipuria (1) · Ashley Brasier (1) · Joe Lonsdale (1)
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