TRIPLE 8 - THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY
Save the teens.
A gamified journey from school life into entrepreneurial life. We turn entrepreneurial curiosity into entrepreneurial reality — through guidance, mentorship, tuition, network access and funding.
- 130M
- of teens graduate from high school each year.
- 7%
- of them launch a business straight after school.
- 90%
- fail within the first years after launch for various reasons.
- 25%
- of company jobs face AI substitution risk by 2030
We INFORM your kids choices at the beginning of their professional career in a RISK FREE, CONSTRUCTIVE and FUN environment among like minded PEERS.
THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY is a physical and virtual COMMUNITY where TALENT meets EXPERIENCE meets AI.
A place where meaningful human connections pass on the reality of founding businesses — dedicated to building the NEXT GENERATION OF WEALTH.
The Why
Around graduation, teens hit their most potent crossroad - and most face it blind.
Traditional schooling has a meaningful place — but today's methods and content face limitations and are incomplete.
Skills essential for future decision-making and career choices remain largely untaught outside private schools.
Content has stayed rigid for decades while the world changes at an exponential rate.
Self-doubt and lack of guidance — not lack of ambition — correlate most with career disorientation among teens.
The What
Traditional education creates great students. We show them how to become founders.
We teach a curated journey from ideation to product launch. We start with customer discovery and pay close attention to proving customer validation.
We help you articulate and test business critical hypothesis and will root them in real problem/solution and solution/market fit.
We walk you to the finish line and help you pitch for funding to launch your product. We are offering a gamified way of building IP and select winners for funding.
The Offering
Four missions to complete. Two ways to work with us.
MISSIONS 01 — 03
Online coaching sessions
Ideation, Solution and Prototype stage gates delivered live, one-to-one or in small teams, with founders, operators and investors.
€250 / hour
MISSION 04
The 3-day physical offsite
The Product stage gate: the best global peers meet, co-create, validate, get mentored and pitch to our Investment Committee.
€1,500 / participant
