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Inside Augment: The Business School Taught by Founders, Not Professors
Season 2 · Episode 10

Inside Augment: The Business School Taught by Founders, Not Professors

Zero to One · Jonathan Yana, Matteo David, Gary Rouch

September 30, 202549m 31s

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Show Notes

🚨 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