TRIPLE 8 - THE FOUNDERS ACADEMY
Save the teens.And make your experience count.Entrepreneurship training for 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 corporate 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 valuable experiences of founding businesses - dedicated to building the next generation of wealth.
Around graduation, teens hit their most potent crossroad in life - 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.
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.
Four missions to complete. Two ways to work with us.
MISSIONS 01 — 03
Online coaching sessions
'Ideation', 'Solution' and 'Prototype' stage gates are delivered live, one-to-one or in small teams with founders, operators and investors.
€150 / hour €500 /stage gate
MISSION 04
The 3-day physical offsite
The 'Beta' stage gate is designed to be a physical summit where the most committed global peers meet, co-create, validate and get mentored to pitch to our Investment Committee.
€1,500 / participant
