Andreessen Horowitz Lists Teachers For Its ‘Free Crypto School’

The popular venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z) recently shared a full list of instructors which will be teaching students about cryptocurrency in its free seven-week crypto startup school. As you previously know if you read our crypto news at the time that this was announced, the school is scheduled to launch in February 2020.

On December 11, the venture capital firm announced that all experienced entrepreneurs, builders, investors and experts in the industry will coach students by sharing lessons that they have learned. They will bring new project ideas, share information and help them get started in the crypto industry.

Meanwhile, the list of crypto startup school teachers and instructors by Andreessen Horowitz includes top entrepreneurs and technologies including the general partner at the firm Chris Dixon, the professor of computer science at Stanford University Dan Boneh as well as Brian Armstrong, the CEO and co-founder at Coinbase, among others.

The firm known as a16z previously noted that it will not take payments from students – in contrast, the crypto school is “for free” in an attempt to accelerate the development of existing blockchain-focused projects and encourage more talent to join the sector.

Previously this year, we saw that France is also keen to introduce an educational module to its high school curriculum covering Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies. In it, French educators will have a chance to teach an introductory course which will assist students in understanding the impact that Bitcoin has on the French and global economies.

As research in the Coinbase news showed, 56% of the top 50 universities in the world offer one or more classes on cryptocurrency and/or blockchain technology. It also found that the number of students taking blockchain or crypto courses had doubled since 2018 and that many top universities also have student-run clubs related to blockchain technology or cryptocurrencies.

Another good example which shows similar sentiment as Andreessen Horowitz is a Mexican high school which recently offered a chance for its students to follow a course named ‘Blockchain for Business’ and labeled it as a graded subject.

“This [course] includes using data analytics apps, creating trading bots and founding business models based on the blockchain. As a result, my students could one day achieve financial independence, which is my main goal,” the academy head Hatem Mabrouk at the American Institute of Monterrey Preparatory School in Mexico said when describing the project.