Ryan Delk
@delk
@Primer CEO. On the side of the builders and the kids.
Something new: the Primer Fellowship. If you've dreamed of launching a microschool, we built this for you. We're opening up the Primer platform — our software, ops engine, academic program, etc. — and giving it to you. Let's launch some schools.
As a general matter: if you can raise capital from folks who also build companies attacking problems like uranium enrichment, I highly recommend it.
I spent over a year at Founders Fund searching for an American enrichment company to invest in, only to find there wasn’t one. So we built our own. General Matter is filling the nuclear U.S. fuel gap. We are enriching uranium in America, and we will be shipping by the end of the…
Becoming great at backchannel references is the highest ROI hiring skill.
A milestone: just hired our first former Primer student. First of many!
He's still got it.
at least once a year i enter a 32-hour weekend fugue state writing purá monkey-brain code and it's beautiful
Insanity. "A student with a score as low as 80 can attain an A and as low as 21 can pass with a D."
The books our latest Eng team member showed up with on his first day.
Applications to Primers are up ~3x this week. Our admissions team is drowning (and loving it). If you'd be an exceptional first touchpoint for families applying for Primer, we're hiring top-of-funnel Admissions Reps (a rare remote role) ASAP. DM's open / [email protected]
this is incredible for texas families and what a great opportunity for @primer who continues to grow at an incredible rate. @delk is the right captain for one of the strongest currents in the country.
For the first time in Texas history, our state has passed a universal school choice bill. This is an extraordinary victory!
Nothing makes me happier than getting photos from standing-room-only Primer open houses in new states.
4yo: “How much money do you have?” 7yo: “Well, that’s sort of a rude question to ask, but 25 dollars.”
I wonder if we'll discover a visual analogue to 'perfect pitch' as these image models keep getting better — people who can immediately tell if an image is AI generated long after the rest of us can.
7yo: “would you rather stare at pure blue light for an hour before bed or eat twice the daily amount of sugar?”
Primer is at an inflection point. It's finally possible to take a real swing at rebuilding our K-12 education system. If you are insanely ambitious and want to do the best work of your life, we are operationally constrained on every team and need your help. DM or [email protected]
Primer fixes this.
Housing is tied to school for *anyone* who can’t afford private school. Since urban private schools are SO expensive, this is a lot more than just lower income You could afford a $1MM house… but not $40K per year/kid Urban education NEEDS to be better to keep families