AlexEd China Education Initiative - Founding Team Meeting

Date: June 16, 2025 Platform: Microsoft Teams Duration: Extended session with subscription purchase mid-meeting

Participants

• Gary Sheng: Strategic connector and facilitator
• Lael Alexander: Foundational scientist and technology architect
• Sherman Taylor (Allen Zhou): Education innovator with China government connections
• Lina Lu: Chinese investor representative and Shanghai market steward
• Ari Crane: Technology architect and government contracts expert
• James King: LZ Group investor and Pudong real estate development veteran

Meeting Significance

This meeting marked the formal founding of the AlexEd China education initiative, with Lael Alexander's enthusiastic acceptance to join the team creating the framework for revolutionary educational collaboration between the United States and China.

Major Developments

Lael Alexander's Formal Acceptance

Historic Moment: Lael Alexander enthusiastically accepted invitation to join the China education team:

Lael Alexander: "I am in. I am so in. You have no idea. I've been waiting for this type of call for the past five years. Yes, sir. This is beautiful. I'm trying to keep my emotions together on this call, Mr. Ory. I'm serious."

Personal Motivation: Lael expressed deep emotional connection to returning to China:

Lael Alexander: "My excitement is so off the charts right this minute, because the way I left, I didn't want to leave China the way that I did... Education would be the safest way for me to do that. I miss China so much."

Educational Philosophy and Vision

Sherman Taylor's Direct Approach

Core Educational Framework: Sherman outlined the revolutionary 2-hour + 6-hour model:

Sherman Taylor: "In a normal classroom, about 80% of your time is wasted... AI solved the problem for us. That the Alpha School with their software and their programming, we were able to take eight hours of instruction to two hours of instruction. So now... We're going to take those six hours? This is where the vocation site comes in."

Student-Centered Approach: Emphasis on passion-driven learning:

Sherman Taylor: "We don't have teachers, by the way. We have guides. Our goal is to guide the students to their own future, not tell them what their future is."

Lael Alexander's Periodic Table Revolution

Foundational Science Vision: Lael's revolutionary approach to education through elemental science:

Lael Alexander: "I think that everyone's been abandoning the periodic table. And all of the solutions are right there, right? God's elements, God's makeups are right there. So I did the unthinkable. I literally broke it down. I took the entire periodic table and I wrote a book for every element."

Nitrogen-Centered Innovation: Core scientific philosophy:

Lael Alexander: "Alpha and Ad Astra both are two educational platforms that don't have a library. And I'm like, well, the library is the core of any educational system... I've been developing a library around the periodic table, highlighting nitrogen as its core, because we've often overlooked nitrogen as an inert particle... it's 78% of our atmosphere."

Technology Infrastructure and Capabilities

Advanced Computing Hardware Demonstration

Next-Generation Processing: Lael demonstrated revolutionary computing hardware:

Lael Alexander: "This is a GPU compute. This is a super computer at your home, 64 cores. That's next generation computing... this replaces 12 blade servers... 64 cores in the one footprint."

School Infrastructure Vision: Complete technological integration:

Lael Alexander: "For the school, we've expanded upon this and we did an array of 64 times 64 cores in the form of a T stack that expands our processing capabilities. This core would be the center of your school. The brain. It is the brain of the school."

Comprehensive Silo Cloud Platform

Digital Sovereignty: Lael's extensive demonstration of Silo Cloud capabilities:

Lael Alexander: "So I've been building our own open source operating system that is independent of Google, Apple, and all of these other companies... It's a full, fully baked cloud-based operating system, a cloud-based OS."

Educational Broadcasting: Revolutionary streaming and content creation tools:

Lael Alexander: "I've just immersed you into a curriculum for our school because I just taught television broadcast in the modern stream era. Literally. Because these tools aren't even available unless one of the big companies are buying it from my company."

Marketplace Integration: Complete e-commerce and influencer platform:

Lael Alexander: "You're the influencer that's now allowed to market in a QVC format, the product on behalf of that other brand. And then we're tracking your sales and everything and paying you for that brand."

Chinese Market Analysis and Government Relations

James King's Market Assessment

Generational Opportunity: Chinese parent demand for educational alternatives:

James King: "I have two sons... And actually, they are very, very eager to know the world... I think China has that 1.4 billion population. I guess there will be 20 million or 15 million parents would like to give the next generation, their children a different, a very, very different experience what they didn't have."

Educational System Critique: Frank assessment of current Chinese education:

James King: "The literacy education in our school is not about teaching the skill of the language, but about teaching the ideology of the government. So they just utilize the language to brainwash the next generation."

Political Transition Recognition: Understanding of changing Chinese landscape:

James King: "China is about to change for the next very, very different thing. Very, very different age. So we got to be prepared... the control of the government is losing."

Lina Lu's Industry Perspective

Gaming Industry Integration: Bridging entertainment and education:

Lina Lu: "I worked 19 years in Ubisoft and three years in Supercell as like a video game producer... in China, the video game industry is also booming strongly. It's huge. And now in the education, it's also booming. We estimated something like a hundred billion US dollar by the end of 2025."

Parental Motivation: Personal drive for educational transformation:

Lina Lu: "I'm a mom of two kids, and they are both in international school in Shanghai... we paid tremendous, huge amount of school tuition. But after our kids graduate, they still don't know what they want to do. And they go to university as well. So that's the reason why I'm super interested in the projects."

Strategic US-China Collaboration Vision

Gary Sheng's Bridge-Building Philosophy

Civilizational Challenge: Recognition of broader educational crisis:

Gary Sheng: "We're in a situation where we're so uneducated as a country that we don't even know how uneducated we are. We are so removed. We are so many generations removed from having built the initial infrastructure..."

Summit Vision: Plans for high-impact demonstration:

Gary Sheng: "Creating something like a global Renaissance summit, right? Where education is put on a pedestal in front of 500 of the most influential people that are values aligned... we do it in Pudong in the conference in September when school's in session."

Ari Crane's Industrial Applications

Supply Chain Revolution: Technology applications across industries:

Ari Crane: "This would also change all supply companies too. We're in the oldest plumbing HVAC supply company in the state of Illinois, 1858 company. This would completely transform supply."

Faith Integration and Shared Values

Sherman Taylor's Faith-Centered Leadership

Meeting Conclusion: Clear spiritual foundation:

Sherman Taylor: "I always finish my meetings because I am really open about my faith. I always end my meetings with God's feet or may God be with you always."

Educational Mission: Integration of faith and learning:

Sherman Taylor: "We can't bring Christianity into the school directly, but we can kind of do it indirectly."

Lael Alexander's Divine Purpose Recognition

Spiritual Response: Recognition of divine orchestration:

Lael Alexander: "Thank you so much. I'm humbled by the opportunity and I hope God guides you guys to make the best decision for this opportunity. And if me and my family can be a part of this, it would mean a lot."

Immediate Action Items and Timeline

Formal Engagement Process

Documentation Requirements: Structured approach to partnership:

Lael Alexander: "The only thing that I require is an engagement, a formal engagement letter stating what you expect of me and telling me when do I execute to the field. Release me to the field. You can speak to me as orders."

Travel and Implementation Plans

Immediate Mobilization: Plans for China trip coordination:

Sherman Taylor: "We will certainly be working very closely with Gary and getting that letter to you for review... We need you at the airport tomorrow, Dallas, and fly with us."

Rapid Deployment Readiness: Lael's preparedness for international engagement:

Lael Alexander: "I got both of mine. I got my China one and my US. I'm ready to go."

Historical Context and Personal Stories

Sherman Taylor's Family Integration

Team Building Philosophy: Importance of personal relationships:

Sherman Taylor: "Yesterday I did take the team to meet my family because I think in a project, a project is about being a family. That we share in our wins and we share in our losses... We came together in fellowship and now we're stronger as a team to make this project a success."

Lael Alexander's China Foundation

Foundational Relationship: Deep connection to Chinese development:

Lael Alexander: "I literally led it off with I was born in America, made in China. 2007, I was introduced to the People's Republic in a very unique way because at that time, those leaders did see exactly some of the things that you're speaking about."

SIECOM Legacy: Historical impact on China's infrastructure:

Lael Alexander: "SIECOM is still today one of the largest companies out there... we literally decided to make it more of an educational play. I built a framework called PreMark... we rolled out across about 40 factories in the Fujian, Huazhongbei, Shenzhen, Sheku area."

Technology Philosophy and Innovation Approach

Lael Alexander's Mimetic Innovation

Divine Inspiration: Foundational approach to technology development:

Lael Alexander: "I feel like that's going to always be our human task, especially because I look at myself and I as an industrialist that mimics what God has put here. I just mimicked what God created and made it tactile and usable for humankind, mostly for the betterment of it."

Gary Sheng's Einstein Succession Vision

Historical Parallel: Recognition of generational scientific leadership:

Gary Sheng: "Dr. Alexander is really the successor to Einstein and Tesla, right? Not the company, Nikola Tesla, right? But also with faith as the important soil that allows for this to translate to human flourishing at a massive scale."

Insurance for Humanity: Urgency of knowledge preservation and scaling:

Gary Sheng: "I think really the next three years... is really just creating insurance for the future of human flourishing... if something bad were to happen to Dr. Alexander and we did not, in the same way that we decades ago, we put Einstein's brain into like the top science and tech universities."

Team Dynamics and Roles

Collective Leadership Philosophy

Anti-Individual Approach: Emphasis on team success:

Sherman Taylor: "As in this team, we never use the word I, it's always we, because everything that happens affects all of the team."

Family Integration: Spouse involvement in projects:

Sherman Taylor: "I hope your wife is also a part of the team because my wife is always a part of my team. And because we do things as a family and strength is as a group, not as an individual."

Meeting Outcome and Significance

This founding meeting successfully:

1. Formalized Team Structure: All key stakeholders aligned and committed
2. Demonstrated Technical Capabilities: Comprehensive technology platform showcase
3. Established Strategic Vision: Clear roadmap for US-China educational collaboration
4. Created Implementation Timeline: Immediate action items and travel coordination
5. Integrated Faith Foundation: Shared spiritual values across cultural boundaries
6. Addressed Regulatory Challenges: Chinese market access and government relations strategy

Founding Day Declaration: The meeting concluded with recognition of its historic significance:

Lina Lu: "Today is Founders Day, June 16th."

This meeting represents a pivotal moment in international educational collaboration, combining advanced American technology innovation with Chinese market access and investment capital, facilitated by shared faith values and commitment to revolutionary educational transformation.