Anand Sanwal

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  • Announcing the Forge Fellowship: Fueling the young & ambitious

    The Forge Fellowship provides $1000 grants to middle and high school entrepreneurs.

    October 10, 2024

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    business, education, investing
  • My next startup: The Schools of Entrepreneuring

    Schools should NOT exist to train children to be compliant and conforming employees and consumers. Education should help develop students into independent-thinking explorers, leaders and problem-solvers.

    May 20, 2024

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    education
  • After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (and I was completely clueless)

    On April 17, 2017, I got thrown into running a business in an industry and country I knew little about. I didn’t totally f^ck it up.

    June 19, 2018

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    family
  • The School Erosion Cycle: Montclair, NJ Case Study

    It will take Montclair, NJ schools 10-20 years to recover. Here’s why it gets much worse before it gets better.

    December 11, 2025

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    education
  • Education in a Post Text World

    Kids are not reading as much. Instead of fighting it, we should embrace our post text world.

    September 8, 2025

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    education, learning
  • Fine Isn’t the Goal

    Fine isn’t proof school worked. It’s proof you endured it. Today’s schools are still preparing kids for cubicles, not the future.

    September 4, 2025

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    education, learning
  • The AI-Education Death Spiral aka Let the Kids Cheat

    Your kid is cheating with AI. And that’s great. Here’s why we should let it burn.

    August 20, 2025

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    education
  • Entrepreneurship Is Still Where Science Was in 1600

    Entrepreneurship needs it scientific method. We are building it.

    August 6, 2025

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    Curriculum, education, entrepreneurship
  • The Boldest Education Experiment in 20 Years Was Just the Beginning

    The boldest education experiment in 20 years just got a sequel.

    August 4, 2025

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    education, entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneuring Is the Best Natural Lab for Learning

    School is a drug we force kids to take 180 days a year for 13 years. It is malpractice. What if we tried something that actually works?

    June 17, 2025

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    Curriculum, education, learning
  • Not Yet

    Being reasonable and responsible kills ambition.

    June 15, 2025

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    entrepreneurship
  • The Problem With School Might Be… Parents

    Overprotective middle and upper-middle class parents are 1 of the problems of our schools. Control the helicopters.

    June 12, 2025

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    education
  • We Got Bamboozled by the Teach Kids to Code Hype

    Schools spent billions teaching kids to code. Now CS grads can’t find jobs. LOL.

    June 2, 2025

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    Curriculum, education
  • The Student-Teacher Ratio Scam

    Everyone knows small class sizes are better. Everyone is wrong. The research is devastating.

    May 28, 2025

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    education
  • We Say Teaching Matters. Then We Treat It Like a Service Job.

    We say teachers shape the future, then pay them like baristas. Here’s how we make teaching prestigious again.

    May 28, 2025

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    education
  • Phones Aren’t the Problem – Consumption Is

    Banning phones in schools misses the actual problem.

    May 9, 2025

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    education
  • Another Initiative. Another Illusion.

    AI isn’t going to save our schools. It’s going to expose how broken they already are.

    April 30, 2025

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    education
  • Productive Struggle

    Your kid isn’t lazy. School is just fake. We’ve stripped learning of meaning, and wonder why students won’t ‘engage’ with busywork. The problem isn’t them. It’s the theater.

    April 16, 2025

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    Curriculum, education
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