94-817 AI Cofounder: A Startup Builder?s Guide

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

A 13-week series to help draft your own founder playbook and get hands-on with applying key principles to startup building. The emphasis of the series is on building, leading, and scaling a meaningful idea into a company. Sessions integrate domain-specific applications (e.g. fintech, health tech, climate), real-world founder stories, and applied skills to help technical minds step into the entrepreneurial arena with clarity and confidence. An underlying theme will be AI//CO (AI as a Cofounder) where we'll challenge each week to not only see a future with enablers like AI but specifically learn how to use AI as a founding teammate.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2026

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