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Inside Augment: The Business School Taught by Founders, Not Professors
Season 2
Episode 10
Published 8 months, 1 week ago
Description
🚨 What if your business school was built by the founder of YouTube?
Or Waze. Or Shazam.
🎙️ Meet Roy Wellner, cofounder of Augment, the online business school delivering premium courses taught by world-class operators. Augment is rethinking what modern education should actually look like.
🔍 In this episode, we dive into:
👉 Why classic MBA programs aren’t built for founders
👉 The OpenAI insight that made AI literacy a non-negotiable part of Augment
👉 How Augment built a curriculum where students actually finish
👉 Why Roy believes your distribution strategy matters more than your product
💡 Plus: Roy’s reflections on full dedication, raising $2M with just a deck, and building something he wishes he had as a student