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School of Mentors
The #1 Entrepreneurship Community in the World 🌎 Get Mentored EVERY WEEK by the Millionaires and Billionaires that We Interview 🔥
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How this community works
- Pricing
- $29 a monthWell above the business median of $7.
- Size
- 6,491 membersBigger than 71% of the business communities indexed here.
- Revenue ceiling
- $188,239 a monthIf every member paid the listed price. Free tiers, discounts and churn are not visible from outside.
- Running since
- May 2024, 2 years, 4 months agoAbout 232 new members a month since launch, on average.
- Format
- Course-led: 18 courses, 1024 modules
- Activity
- 28,320 posts4.4 posts per member, which is consistently active.
- Grows from
- Instagram and their own website
- Platform
- Skool
- Category
- Business
- Last verified
- 23 August 2026
Steal this
- Courses are the hook and the discussion is the retention: 18 courses plus 4.4 posts per member.
- Roughly 232 new members a month since launch. Look at the owner's channels for where they come from.
- The owner runs Instagram and their own website. That is the audience the community was launched to; the community is the back end of it.
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About School of Mentors
The #1 Entrepreneurship Community in the World 🌎 Get Mentored EVERY WEEK by the Millionaires and Billionaires that We Interview 🔥
Notes
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The one-liner
Weekly live access to interviewed millionaires, sold as an entrepreneurship classroom.
What they actually sell
School of Mentors, run with the School of Hard Knocks brand, sells proximity to the operators it interviews. The public Skool lander promises a weekly live community call with a millionaire or billionaire you can question directly, on-demand fundamentals covering business, sales and marketing, a monthly virtual event with multiple experts, Hard Knocks masterclasses on content and networking, and weekly peer entrepreneur calls. Promotional free tickets to special guest days — including Shark Tank-style sessions with named investors — sit in front of the paid room. The classroom and discussion feed are the retention layer around that live calendar, so the membership feels like an ongoing show you can speak into rather than a static course pack.
Who pays and why
Buyers are aspiring founders who already binge founder interviews and want the next step: asking their own questions live, not only watching a cut-down YouTube version. They pay for access, accountability and a room of people already building, not for another generic PDF curriculum. The emotional purchase is proximity and courage — feeling close enough to serious operators to act.
Where the members come from
The Hard Knocks interview machine and guest-day promotions are the visible front door; the Skool page is the conversion surface. Wider social follower counts are not listed on the lander, so treat YouTube or Instagram scale as not listed unless verified elsewhere on their public properties.
What's holding it back
The promise is celebrity proximity, which means quality depends on keeping the guest calendar sharp. If guests thin out, the room collapses into another low-ticket entrepreneurship Skool. A clear public upsell path beyond the base membership is not listed on the open page.
Steal this
Turn every interview you already publish into a weekly paid AMA with that guest as the membership hook.
Would this work in another niche?
Yes — any niche with interviewable operators (creators, clinicians, investors) can sell “ask them live” as the product, not only the archive.
Written 22 September 2026. The facts above are computed; these notes are not.
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