Jeff Holmes: belief

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…At the University of Austin. We’re very close to T sub zero in University of Austin planning. I’m not sure how much anyone knows, but I think they will genuinely teach classic works. They will genuinely court STEM majors and give them a rigorous education. I think they will attract a fair number of students. The push I gave them in the chat I had with their president was to really be a radical university and not just not be Woke, but to change pedagogy quite a bit in innovative ways that took a lot of chances. I genuinely have no idea how much they will or will not be doing that, but that was my advice as someone on the advisory board. If it were just like a better St. John’s with more STEM majors, well, that would be great. I love St. John’s as it is. Maybe they’re underperforming relative to what they could be and could do. They ought to think big and have founder energy and overturn the world. We’ll see. Speaking of founder energy, if we’re thinking about it in terms of starting a company or venture capital or whatever, I think one thing that worries me about it — maybe it’s too early in it, but I don’t see people dropping everything to join us, and they don’t have the skin in the game. So far — maybe I’m wrong — but so far, none of the big professors or whatever have revoked tenure and said, “I’m full-time University of Austin.” Is that a concern? I don’t know. I think the first thing I said is, we’re very close to T sub zero in the planning horizon. It’s just so, so early in the game. I’m not sure they will succeed by getting well-known people to join. That strategy itself might be a mistake. Most well-known people are somewhat older. Nothing against that, but it could be they revolutionize the world by getting a few 23-year-old YouTubers on board, right?…

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