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Decentralizing Education with Synthesis

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I'm co-leading a round in Synthesis, a startup scaling the custom school built for Elon Musk’s kids.

I’m co-leading an investment round in Synthesis with Replit CEO Amjad Masad. It’s a fresh take on early childhood education based on the custom school built for Elon Musk’s kids and the early engineers at SpaceX. Why a new school? Confidence in public schools is at historic lows. Parents want a change. And people can sense that the Prussian education system, the model for American schooling, just isn’t working anymore. Perhaps fifty years ago you might well pull the same lever every day on an assembly line, but today you hit a different key every second. Instruction hasn’t kept up. You…

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