The Year AI Came for Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be the Same
This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught. The class is now taught in hundreds of universities worldwide and helped launch thousands of startups.
- ▪This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants.
- ▪15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught.
- ▪The class is now taught in hundreds of universities worldwide and helped launch thousands of startups.
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| Original publisher | Steve Blank |
| Canonical URL | https://steveblank.com/2026/09/23/the-year-ai-came-for-us-teaching-entrepreneurship-will-never-be-the-same/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:15:35 +0000 |
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This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught. The class is now taught in hundreds of universities worldwide and helped launch thousands of startups. But this past summer, I got thinking about whether AI killed our Lean LaunchPad class, and with it the Lean Startup and Customer Development. I realized that if we wanted students to learn how to build businesses rather than AI slop, we had to rethink the class. Here’s what happened, how we diagnosed the changes needed, and what we are planning to do going forward. For the last 15 years the cadence of the Lean LaunchPad class has been the same. Students arrived with hypotheses of their product idea and target customers.
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