Stand out to elite colleges by demonstrating entrepreneurial skills. Build a real business under close mentorship from young founders.
Now Enrolling, Spring 2026.
The 20/80 High School Accelerator is a prep program for ambitious students who want to stand out in the college admissions process by thinking and building like founders. Students learn lean business methodology through hands-on projects that turn ideas into digital businesses. Each cohort works through rapid testing, funnel-building, and creative problem-solving to understand how real digital businesses grow and adapt. Along the way, they develop critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and cross-disciplinary skills in design, marketing, and technology. The program’s goal isn’t just to make students “ready for college.” It’s to make them independent thinkers who can spot opportunities, launch lean, and create value. Graduates leave with a portfolio that showcases not only their ideas, but the process and grit behind them—exactly what top schools and future investors look for.
Our instructors are not academics. They’re founders & role models for the careers and lives our students want to build.
Schedule a free info call with one of our academic advisors to learn how we mentor young founders.
The world is shifting faster than any classroom can catch up. Artificial intelligence is a full reorganization of what work means. Tasks once considered advanced are now automated. Knowledge alone no longer gives you an edge. In this new world, the most valuable human skills are not memorization but taste, creativity, and human skills.
This transformation demands an entirely new model of education. The future doesn’t need more specialists. It needs adaptable thinkers who can bridge disciplines, lead with empathy, and design the systems no one has imagined yet.
The first essential skill for the future is taste — the ability to recognize quality, to name what feels right, and to elevate culture rather than replicate it. Taste is how you tell the difference between noise and signal, cliché and originality. It’s a muscle that strengthens through deep exposure to art, music, architecture, nature, and life itself. Taste is how humans will continue to stand apart from machines.
The second is cross-systems thinking. The world is too complex for siloed expertise. To thrive, you must learn to think like a designer, a marketer, a technologist, a financier, and a philosopher — all at once. The power lies not in mastering one domain, but in seeing how all domains connect. The future will belong to those who can move between worlds with fluency and imagination.
And finally, the third — and perhaps most timeless — is emotional and physical health. In an age of constant acceleration, the ability to remain grounded, present, and healthy is no longer optional. Mental and physical wellness aren’t side notes to success; they are the foundation of it. The best ideas collapse when the person behind them burns out.
The future’s most valuable skills:
The refined ability to recognize, describe, and create quality. Taste separates noise from signal, cliché from originality. It’s how great designers, writers, and leaders make decisions that feel timeless.
The future demands thinkers who can bridge worlds — who can design like artists, communicate like marketers, analyze like financiers, and reason like lawyers. This is the superpower of creative generalists: the ability to see how everything connects, and to move fluidly across disciplines.
The third is emotional and physical health. No matter how advanced technology becomes, our ability to stay centered, grounded, and connected will define the quality of our lives. Success without health isn’t success at all. So at 2080, we treat wellness, resilience, and emotional intelligence as core curriculum — not electives.
Our BA degree is 3 years, cutting out unnecessary academia, replacing it with essential critical thinking and life skills.
Critical Thinking & Life Skills
Skills & Projects
Work Study & Travel
Critical Thinking & Life Skills
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
This is not “get your general education credits out of the way, sit in lectures, and hope your diploma turns into a paycheck.” This is education designed from first principles, stripped down to what is actually essential in order to create and lead in the world today.
We built this degree for the new generation of AI-Driven entrepreneurs. Not the ones who want to wait until 30 or 40 to do what they love. The ones who want to build now.
Great careers start by mastering a skill, and using it as an anchor for lifelong learning. In year 2, students choose 2 anchor skills that they can begin monetezing quickly.
Branding, Design, UX
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
Digital Marketing
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
Social Media & Content Creation
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
Systems Architecture
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
CEO Skills
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
Branding, Design, UX
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
Digital Marketing
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
Social Media & Content Creation
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
Systems Architecture
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
CEO Skills
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
Great careers start by mastering a skill, and using it as an anchor for lifelong learning. In year 2, students choose 2 anchor skills that they can begin monetezing quickly.
Branding, Design, UX
Digital Marketing
Social Media & Content Creation
Systems Architecture
CEO Skills
Branding, Design, UX
Our degree in Creative Entrepreneurship is built for people who want to create from their soul, impact the world, and make great money doing it. It’s for students who are ready to take their creativity seriously, not as a hobby, but as the foundation for a meaningful, thriving life.
