Let me say a few honest words.
I'm Qiu Yiwu, trained at Zhejiang University's College of Computer Science.
Over the past few years I've been building Zaowuyun, teaching in the MBA programs at ZJU, Xiamen and Sun Yat-sen universities, and — more often — advising companies on applying AI. All of it kept leading me to the same realization —
AI isn't a tool upgrade. It's a cognitive revolution.
And for adults versus teenagers, that revolution runs in opposite directions.
For adults, AI cuts against the grain. It forces you to admit that hard-won skills are losing value — to say goodbye to the self you were proud of.
For teenagers, AI runs with the grain. The barriers it lowers are exactly the ones that used to stand in front of the young — the barriers to expression, to creation, to actually making an idea real.
So I believe, more and more:The biggest variable in AI-era education isn't university, isn't the workplace — it's adolescence.
When AI makes people who can answer worth less and less, and makes people who can build ever scarcer, what children really need to learn is no longer more standard answers —
it's:what do you actually want to make.
it's:can you actually make it real.
it's:can you keep growing inside other people's feedback.
This is exactly the part AI can't replace. It's why I started Yongle —to translate the future I saw on the front lines of business into an education we can put into young hands.
Yongle is still small — just a “virtual school” — a body of research, a group of mentors, a method — a product growing year by year. We want to use technology to bring creator education into more families: not trapped in a campus, not stopped by a single city.
Young CEO is our first flagship program. Each cohort takes only 12 — because we want to truly know every child.
If you, too, believe that the real scarcity in the AI era is that spark in a young person — the “I want to make something” light —
come a little closer to us.
