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Comment on Ask HN:You have $1b to found your own university. What do you do?

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I'd focus on skills.

There is an interesting development where a couple states are playing with the concept of a no-upfront costs for education system, but a % of income for a period of time. If that could be applied to society at large via a for-profit private university. I might consider building a university which focused on marketable engineering/tech skills which collected revenue based on an increase of salary.

Say you are making 30-40k when you enter and you would be willing to give 10% of anything above that for 10 years.

It would seem the university would now be directly incentivized to teach you skills which increase your pay. Moreover they would be more incentivized to get you a good job/jobs/promotions over the years to create a better return for themselves. You’d probably end up with a career coach…

just some random thoughts.

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