Arpan Gupta (@arpangup) / X

Arpan Gupta

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Arpan Gupta

@arpangup

I'm building Texas Sports Academy. We're building the best schools in the world for Texas student athletes. DM me if you want to help. @alphaschoolatx

Austin, TX

texassportsacademy.com

Joined January 2024

Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Nov 14, 2025
When Shohei Ohtani was a high school freshman, he created a detailed "dream sheet" with one central goal: to be the #1 draft pick for 8 NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) teams. It was a 64-cell roadmap based on a framework called the Harada Method. Here's exactly what Shohei
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Nov 15, 2025
Replying to @arpangup
By the way, this is the exact process we're teaching at Texas Sports Academy for our elite middle school athletes. Our coaches have the kids... 1. Write down their dream 2. Work backwards to define the necessary habits 3. Build sustainable systems that make execution automatic
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Oct 12, 2025
After running 5 schools, I've realized that the feature in edtech software that *drastically* increases learning outcomes is not things like better spaced repetition algorithms or improved content scaffolding. Learning science principles are very important but what truly
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Nov 13, 2025
If you're interested in building in the world of atoms, there's no better place than Austin. SF -> ship code NYC -> ship spreadsheets Austin -> robots with Tesla, education with Alpha School, rockets with SpaceX and more. If you want to change the *actual* world, move to
liemandt
@jliemandt
Nov 13, 2025
Austin is assembling the largest group of 1) educational innovators and builders, and more importantly: 2) parents who want a radically better education for their kids. This has made Austin the epicenter of educational innovation and the undisputed K-12 leader in the world. If
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Nov 15, 2025
At Texas Sports Academy, we're having our middle schoolers do this exact process for their dreams (D1 scholarship, pro athlete, 4.0 GPA, etc.) Our coaches have the kids... 1. Write down their dream 2. Work backwards to define the necessary habits 3. Build sustainable systems
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Nov 8, 2025
The real secret of how Alpha drives amazing educational outcomes is that we've turned motivating kids into a science. *Nothing* motivates a kid more than crushing his friends in a video game. Playcademy turns K-12 education into a multiplayer video game, getting kids hopelessly
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Sep 29, 2025
Our Texas Sports Academies will completely crush every other school academically. How? Because we have the ultimate way to motivate our students to do their school work. We tell our sports-obsessed, D1-bound students... “hey you can play sports all afternoon but only if you
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Sep 25, 2025
The best ROI for learning outcomes? Just pay the kids... At Texas Sports Academy, we've started telling students that we'll pay them $100 if they can get a 100% on their Texas STAAR. Motivation is everything and creating a clear incentive for a student to achieve mastery on
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Sep 28, 2025
We're called "Texas Sports Academy" but we obsess over learning outcomes more than any other school. At the center of our Austin office is our "Learning Leaderboard". We rank every single Texas Sports Academy on learning outcomes and have detailed views of how students are
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Oct 18, 2025
99% of Edtech software does nothing to ensure students aren't cheating, guessing or rushing. This is a *huge* oversight that has made the majority of edtech apps ineffective for your average student. (cheating is rampant at schools + universities) For our Texas Sports Academy
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Oct 18, 2025
The main reason we're able to ship so much internal software at Alpha School / Texas Sports Academy is because all our engineers are fully AI-enabled. We have an unlimited company-wide budget for AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, v0, whatever) so we're constantly shipping
Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Oct 18, 2025
99% of Edtech software does nothing to ensure students aren't cheating, guessing or rushing. This is a *huge* oversight that has made the majority of edtech apps ineffective for your average student. (cheating is rampant at schools + universities) For our Texas Sports Academy
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Oct 31, 2025
Two hours of hyper-efficient learning in the morning, then elite training with the best coaches in Texas. This is how you get kids to love coming to school.
liemandt
@jliemandt
Oct 31, 2025
Texas Sports Academy tuition starts at $15k, meaning about $400/month in parent payments with the Texas ESA program. Their goal is to build 1,000 throughout Texas. We are working to bring the Alpha model to everyone.
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Jul 25, 2025
The best way to be unemployed & miserable as a software engineer is to read r/cscareerquestions on Reddit. Never seen so much loser mentality in one place.
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Arpan Gupta
@arpangup
Mar 11, 2025
Latest Windsurf update is honestly magical. Spent the last 5 hrs coding w/ it and the agent's done *exactly* what I wanted it to do every single time. Amazing job @windsurf_ai
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