Cameron Sorsby

In an episode of Sprockets’ “Talent Talk” published on September 5, 2019, he said that he was 28; he recalled that about 99% of his high school graduating class went on to college.⁠[1]

On the Tuttle Twins podcast he recalled that “I never really enjoyed school,” that from a very young age he was always reading and was into politics and current events, and that he was very competitive; he said there were multiple times during college when he seriously considered dropping out.⁠[2]

In college he studied philosophy, political science and economics; he said he enjoyed learning but not the rigidity of formal instruction. During the 2012 election season he volunteered for a political campaign.⁠[3]

In LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry posts he recalled growing up playing competitive soccer, coached by people who had played at the national level and who both pushed him and supported him; he said this combination of high expectations and high support shaped how he thinks about leadership.⁠[4]

Discover Praxis was founded by Isaac Morehouse in 2013. On July 3, 2013, Morehouse announced Discover Praxis on his personal blog, describing it as an education program that combines online courses with hands-on work at value-creating businesses, with learners assessed through oral examinations by experts in the field.⁠[3][5]

There are two accounts of how he came to know Morehouse. On the Tuttle Twins podcast he recalled that he interned for Morehouse, before his senior year of college, at the job Morehouse held before starting Discover Praxis, and that Morehouse shared the idea for Discover Praxis with him during that internship; The Business of Business’s 2021 interview states that he interned for Morehouse during his senior year of college, while Morehouse was building the company. A 2020 episode of The Daily Job Hunt also discusses how he thought about starting a career while in college and his internship with Isaac.⁠[2][3][6]

In Discover Praxis’s 2019 announcement he wrote: “Ever since Isaac shared his vision for Praxis with me early in 2013, I’ve been hooked.” He wrote that he went on to become one of the first paying customers; the description of The Daily Job Hunt episode likewise calls him one of the first customers to sign up when Discover Praxis launched.⁠[7][6]

His LinkedIn experience section records that from June 2013 to May 2014 he was donor relations coordinator at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in Atlanta, assisting the director of development with donor prospecting, retention and growth; he wrote that during his year on the fundraising team FEE’s annual budget grew by 20%.⁠[8]

From May 2014 to February 2015 he was FEE’s program development manager, choosing topics, designing curricula and recruiting professional and academic faculty for FEE’s 2015 in-person education programs, which introduced high school and college-age participants to Austrian economics and the social benefits of entrepreneurship; he also launched EconInsiders, a monthly collection of resources to keep FEE alumni engaged with economic principles.⁠[8]

Discover Praxis’s first cohorts started in early 2014, and he was in its first-ever cohort; the Southeast Homeschool Expo’s speaker page describes him as a graduate of the inaugural Discover Praxis class.⁠[3][9]

He wrote in the 2019 announcement that he joined the Discover Praxis team the year after becoming one of its first paying customers. In the Sprockets episode published in September 2019 he said that he had been working for Discover Praxis for the last five years and had seen it at its “very early stages.”⁠[7][1]

His LinkedIn education section lists Discover Praxis from February 2014 to January 2015; his experience section records that from February to December 2015 he worked on program development and recruitment for the program in the Charleston, South CarolinaSouth CarolinaSouth Carolina (officially the State of South Carolina) is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Ocean bordering Georgia and North Carolina; its capital is Columbia and its most populous city is Charleston. One of the original 13 states, it ratified the U.S. Constitution on May 23, 1788, the eighth state to do so. Its population in the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) was 5,118,425.Open the full entry, area.⁠[8]

On March 7, 2015, Isaac Morehouse’s blog published a post in memory of KJ Herr, and its section of thoughts from the team and fellow participants includes his tribute. He wrote that he had known KJ Herr for a few years through SFL and then worked with him as KJ Herr started Discover Praxis, and that he felt privileged to have discussed his ideas for new business ventures with him; the tribute ends: “KJ, thank you for allowing me to be part of your life. You will be missed, friend.”⁠[10]

On April 15, 2015, the Southeast Homeschool Expo website published his speaker page, listed under “2015 Speakers.” It describes him as an entrepreneur and “a life-long student of ideas” who has worked with organizations including the Foundation for Economic Education to educate young people on entrepreneurship and cultivate their passion for it; through his experience in fundraising, educational programming and sports he has learned that the best way to gain valuable skills is through action; and he is passionate about helping entrepreneurial young people decide how they want to impact the world.⁠[9]

His LinkedIn experience section records that he was chief operating officer of Discover Praxis from January 2016 to July 2019.⁠[8]

Morehouse wrote in the August 2019 announcement that he had been an excellent COO for the past several years and could handle any crisis, lead any department, manage any transition and solve any problem. The Business of Business’s interview states that before becoming chief executive he led Discover Praxis’s business development and placement efforts and had more than 500 calls with companies; on the Tuttle Twins podcast he likewise referred to the “500 plus phone calls” he had had with companies interested in hiring through Discover Praxis.⁠[7][3][2]

On January 24, 2016, a post on Isaac Morehouse’s blog about Discover Praxis’s PDPs quoted a passage by “my colleague Cameron Sorsby.” In it he defines a PDP as “a short-term set of challenges” with the goal of gaining self-knowledge, overcoming obstacles to success and gaining mastery in areas of value to the individual and the marketplace; he argues that because for most of their lives young people are directed where to be and what to learn, with their daily structure designed for them, transitioning successfully to professional life is a great challenge, and that PDPs help make creativity an everyday habit, develop marketable skills and provide tangible evidence of the ability to create value for others, while encouraging people to decide for themselves what matters. The post states that Discover Praxis participants complete 12 PDPs during the program, one each month, with help from their program advisor.⁠[11]

On January 30, 2016, he was among the respondents listed in the Morehouse blog post “Smart People Say Stuff About…Backup Plans.” On September 19 of that year he joined Levi Morehouse and Ian Vanhover on episode 101 of Isaac Morehouse’s show, “The Football Episode,” which broke down the start of the NFLNFLThe NFL (National Football League) is a U.S. professional American football league of 32 clubs. Founded in 1920 as the APFA and renamed in 1922, it is organized into the AFC and NFC, with the season culminating in the Super Bowl.Open the full entry season, from week one results to Tom BradyTom BradyTom Brady is an American retired football quarterback, sports broadcaster and investor. He played for the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, winning seven Super Bowls across twenty-three NFL seasons. His subsequent work includes sports broadcasting, team ownership and sports-related business ventures.Open the full entry’s suspension and how to create winning cultures.⁠[12][13]

On July 14, 2017, Isaac Morehouse added an edit note at the end of his blog post “Don’t be Afraid to Be Interesting”: “Per my colleague Cameron Sorsby, worth noting that a bumper sticker is not a philosophy.”⁠[14]

He has a personal newsletter on Substack, described as covering the apprenticeship program he then worked for, career-building and other curiosities; on May 21, 2019, it published a placeholder post, “Coming soon,” which as of November 2026 was its only post. His Substack profile reads “CEO @discoverpraxis. Helping driven young people build self-directed careers through a business apprenticeship program.”⁠[15][16]

On August 6, 2019, Discover Praxis announced that he would become its full-time chief executive officer. In the announcement Isaac Morehouse wrote that he had asked him to step up as CEO and that he had accepted; Morehouse himself moved into an advisory role at Discover Praxis and put his full-time effort into a separate project, Crash. Morehouse described him as trustworthy, with good judgment, driven, focused, humble, open and a strong manager of people, and joked that he is “amazing at ping pong.”⁠[7]

In the same announcement he wrote that for the past six years he had been wholly absorbed in Discover Praxis; he also wrote “Anyone who knows me personally, knows I’m competitive.”, said that he embraces challenges and “I love to win,” and said he would work with TK and Sara, colleagues in charge of the education and operations departments, and the whole team to have Discover Praxis serve many more customers.⁠[7]

His LinkedIn experience section gives his tenure as chief executive officer as August 2019 to April 2024, and his time at Discover Praxis in all as about nine years and three months.⁠[8]

On September 5, 2019, the blog of Sprockets published the episode “Talent Talk: Career Readiness with Cameron Sorsby,” in which the host, Sprockets’ chief marketing officer Chad Troutman, introduced him as Discover Praxis’s COO. The page’s introduction says that Discover Praxis prides itself as an alternative to college; he described it as a 12-month startup apprenticeship program that places apprentices mainly in entry-level, non-technical roles such as sales, customer service, customer success and marketing at growing startups, with a six-month apprenticeship phase; he said Discover Praxis had grown from about a dozen participants a year to consistently serving more than 100 apprenticeship candidates.⁠[1]

On April 14, 2020, the podcast The Daily Job Hunt released the 28-minute episode “From Customer to CEO with Cameron Sorsby,” a conversation between Isaac and him. The episode description says that he worked his way up through a variety of roles before taking over as CEO; the episode covers how he launched his career, why a team-first perspective ends up being best for the individual, how being a great customer can lead to job opportunities, how to become an indispensable employee, being a team player, and concerns about businesses exploiting hard workers.⁠[6]

On April 24, 2020, the Silicon Alley Podcast, hosted by William Glass, released episode 24, with him as the guest discussing alternative college experiences. The description says that he “doesn’t naturally have the entrepreneurial gene” and found his way to the top of Discover Praxis by working his way up and following his interests; he believes that failure is one of the greatest teachers and that in your 20s you should prioritize learning over earning potential. It calls Discover Praxis a six-month intensive boot camp for those who “want more than college” and says his mission is to help driven young people become self-directed career-builders without college.⁠[17]

On November 29, 2021, The Business of Business published an interview with him as Discover Praxis’s CEO. It describes Discover Praxis, then eight years old, as a one-year business apprenticeship: a six-month remote professional-development boot camp followed by six months at a tech startup or growing small business, in business roles such as sales, marketing operations and recruiting coordination; Discover Praxis focused on technology companies with anywhere from 10–15 to 500 or 600 employees.⁠[3]

He explained in the interview that tuition was $12,000, payable up front or through a plan with a $1,000 deposit and monthly payments starting about halfway through the program; that participants started their apprenticeships at an average of $35,000 to $40,000; that about 80% of participants were choosing Discover Praxis instead of college or were leaving college to join; and that annual enrollment had grown from 15–20 participants to 100–120.⁠[3]

The interview states that more than 150 companies had hired apprentices from Discover Praxis, about half of new partners came through referrals, partners paid $1,500 to $3,000 per hire, about 95% of revenue came from participant tuition, and the company was self-funded and had been profitable since 2016. Partners it names include PandaDoc, which had hired more than 30 participants over about four years (the interview says it grew from about 65–70 employees to more than 500 and was valued at over $1 billion after a Series C round); Good United, a nonprofit fundraising software company in Charleston that had hired five or six participants over 18 months; and the private equity firm Xenon Partners, which used Discover Praxis to hire entry-level staff across its 8 to 10 portfolio companies.⁠[3]

In the interview he argued that businesses do not care whether candidates have a college degree, caring instead about whether they can create value, which Discover Praxis participants can show through tangible projects; he cited average student debt of about $37,000 and said repayment takes about 20 years on average.⁠[3]

From September 2024 to March 2025 he worked full-time at Mainshares in Austin, TexasTexasTexas is a U.S. state in the south-central United States, with its capital at Austin and its largest city Houston. It was admitted to the Union on December 29, 1845, as the 28th state, and the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted 29,145,505 residents.Open the full entry, in acquisition entrepreneur development, which he described on LinkedIn as building development programs and a network for the next generation of small and medium-sized business owner-operators.⁠[8]

His LinkedIn experience section records that since October 2025 he has worked full-time at Alpha School as head of Founders School, based in New York.⁠[8]

In a LinkedIn post he recalled that after stepping away from Discover Praxis he began seeing a great deal of Alpha School content on social media and found it the first K–12 model he felt deeply aligned with; he was later introduced to an entrepreneurship track being developed inside Alpha High, which became Founders School and was presented to him as the idea of some of the most entrepreneurial students and of the principal, Joe LiemandtJoe LiemandtJoe Liemandt is a software entrepreneur and investor who founded the enterprise software company Trilogy Software and the software acquirer ESW Capital, and is principal of the AI-driven private school Alpha School.Open the full entry. He said he first thought the goal of helping students make $1 million before graduating high school was “a little wild,” went to Austin and spent 90 minutes with the students hearing about their businesses, and by the time he sat down with Joe Liemandt was already sold; he said the students were the reason he joined.⁠[4]

In another post he wrote that three weeks into building Founders School he contacted Nat EliasonNat EliasonNat Eliason (Nathaniel Eliason) is a writer and entrepreneur who founded the content marketing agency Growth Machine and wrote Crypto Confidential, Husk, and The Birth of Paradise. His work spans content marketing, crypto industry writing, science fiction, and AI-assisted software development, and in 2026 he took part in building Founders School, an entrepreneurship high school program under Alpha School in New York.Open the full entry, whom he had never met, on X and invited him to run a workshop for the students on building with AI; the two then decided to build the school together and became co-heads of Founders School. His LinkedIn “About” section likewise describes him as one of the co-heads of Founders School.⁠[4][18]

On March 13, 2026, he announced on X that Alpha School Austin would open a new high school for aspiring entrepreneurs, promising that students would make $1 million by graduation or receive a full tuition refund; he also recruited two or three coaches who would give no lectures or homework but would grill students on their profit and loss and push their businesses forward, and in a reply linked the job posting “High School Elite Guide - Entrepreneurship” at $150,000 a year.⁠[19]

In replies to the same post he said the school would start with a freshman class of 20 in Austin, would eventually have campuses in every major region of the country, and would focus not only on tech startups but on cash-flow businesses across industries.⁠[19]

In LinkedIn posts he wrote that Founders School breaks the $1 million goal into steps—first $100, then $1,000, then $10,000—and that at the time of posting all 20 students had made their first $100 and several had reached $1,000; he also wrote that a student who had not liked school found a project after an AI-agent workshop and within six months had built a business and made $15,000.⁠[4]

On November 11, 2026, he posted on X that he was hiring a Lead Founder Guide for the Austin campus of Founders School, saying the campus had five students already building real companies and would launch a full school the following year, with starting pay of $200,000–$250,000.⁠[20]

As CEO of Discover Praxis he appeared on episode 207, “Do You Need to Go to College?”, of the Tuttle Twins family podcast “The Way the World Works,” discussing with the hosts Connor and Brittany whether college is necessary for everyone. Reflecting on his schooling, he said that he probably spent about 20% of his time on “proactive intentional activities,” such as different work experiences, self-directed projects and his own reading, to figure out what he wanted to do, and that he is now successful and happy, doing work he loves.⁠[2]

Alpha School: Official website: https://alpha.school/ (opens in a new window).⁠[21]

Founders School: Official website: https://founders.school/ (opens in a new window).⁠[22][23]

Discover Praxis: Official website: https://joinpraxis.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[24]

Foundation for Economic Education: Official website: https://fee.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[25]

X: Public account: https://x.com/CameronSorsby (opens in a new window).⁠[17][6]

LinkedIn: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronsorsby/ (opens in a new window).⁠[18]

Substack: Personal newsletter: https://cameronsorsby.substack.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[15]