
โ Zero to One30 Sept 2025 ยท 50 min
Inside Augment: The Business School Taught by Founders, Not Professors
๐จ What if your business school was built by the founder of YouTube?
Or Waze. Or Shazam.
๐๏ธ 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.
๐ In this episode, we dive into:
๐ Why classic MBA programs arenโt built for founders
๐ The OpenAI insight that made AI literacy a non-negotiable part of Augment
๐ How Augment built a curriculum where students actually finish
๐ Why Roy believes your distribution strategy matters more than your product
๐ก Plus: Royโs reflections on full dedication, raising $2M with just a deck, and building something he wishes he had as a student