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Big Lever Institute
Welcoming collaboration
A while back I floated an idea here in the fellowship: a nonprofit that gives people a free, hands-on onramp to the AI era, built the way founders actually build. Fellow EHFer Deborah Crowe saw that post and joined the board, and today Big Lever Institute (a 501(c)(3)) is live and delivering programming at no cost.
The Institute grew out of Big Lever Ventures, my AI-native venture studio. Ventures builds products and companies; the Institute builds capability and shares what works openly. That means studio-style cohorts with weekly build/ship/learn cycles, portfolio-driven outcomes instead of certificates, and open playbooks, prompts, and guides any person or organization can reuse. Paths are available for aspiring founders, operators, and people combining both.
New programming is rolling out continually. If you know recent grads, career-switchers, founders, or educators wrestling with AI, I’d be grateful if you sent them our way.
In collaboration with Deborah Crowe
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