The a16z Show · Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Joe Liemandt describes how Alpha School teaches teamwork by having third graders go through escape rooms while mic'd up, using AI to analyze transcripts of their communication and requiring an 85% team-behavior score to pass.
“We take every third grader and we mic them up, and we throw them into an escape room, right? And they're all getting through the escape room. And at the end of it, we have AI analyze the transcript.”