The quarter-million dollar question: College or company?
For decades, the answer was obvious. Pay $250k for college—your kid stays young for four more years, learns from professors who've never built anything, graduates with debt and theories. The university contained youth, the diploma, expensive insurance against your kid being, well, young.
AI creates another option. Invest that same $250k in a Wakai-powered startup. Your kid is still young—but now they have AI advisors older than civilization.
The Youth Paradox
When parents say their kid is "too young" to run a company, they mean too young to spot bad deals, too young to hire well, too young to manage money. But somehow old enough for non-dischargeable student loans?
College doesn't cure youth. It just delays the symptoms. It teaches obedience to the old at a time when everything is changing. The kid who was "too young" at 19 is somehow "ready" at 23? Four years older, with a piece of paper, and down a quarter million dollars.
Consider that youth + AI is the ultimate combination. Young people ask "why not?" AI explains exactly why not - or helps them do it anyway.
The Beautiful Truth About Youth
Young people have energy to iterate and refine, AI ensures each iteration is smarter. Young people don't know what's impossible. Young people move fast. AI prevents them from moving stupid.
Not vague mentorship. Not weekly check-ins. A Wakai AI co-founder that never sleeps, never judges, and has seen every way to fail.
College neutralizes youth. Wakai weaponizes it.
Give $250k to a 35-year-old, they'll overthink it to death. Give it to your 19-year-old with AI, they'll build something before the 35-year-old finishes their market analysis.
The old path: Learn about business from textbooks, graduate blinded by theories, compete for jobs that won't exist.
The new path: Learn about business from building one, with Wakai AI tutors, graduate with a company, create jobs that didn't exist.
The Real Question
Your kid is going to be young and make mistakes either way. Do you want them to make those mistakes in a classroom or a boardroom? Hidden in a dorm or building in public?
If they fail at college: Four years older, $250k poorer, still inexperienced, worse, domesticated.
If they fail with Wakai: One year older, $250k invested, actually experienced, humbled, maybe exactly what they needed.
If they succeed? You bet on your kid instead of betting against them, leverage instead of containment.
We're not asking you to trust your young founder. We're asking you to trust our AI to make their youth an asset instead of a liability.
Invest $250k and one year. You will get back an experienced founder who happens to still be young.
The future belongs to builders. The question is: will your kid be one of them, or will they be working for one?