The Evergreen Foundry · Sequoia Program
Teach them to read the room before the room reads them.
Evergreen is a private, near-peer mentorship program that arms high school students against predatory credit, BNPL traps, sports betting, and the quiet erosion of generational wealth. Small cohorts. Real scenarios. Mentors two steps ahead of them.
§ 01 · The Landscape
Your kid graduates into a market built to prey on them.
Schools still teach compound interest with a worksheet. Meanwhile, a $200B industry deploys behavioral scientists, machine learning, and dopamine loops against 18-year-olds the day they get a debit card. Evergreen was built for the parents who see this and refuse to send their kids in unarmed.
Predatory credit
First credit cards designed to bury 18-year-olds under minimum-payment interest for a decade.
BNPL & micro-debt
Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm — normalized installment debt on $60 sneakers.
Gamified speculation
Robinhood, Kalshi, DraftKings — a slot machine wearing a fintech logo.
Modern scams
Deepfakes, romance scams, crypto pigs — engineered by data, targeted by algorithm.
FIG. 02 — SEQUOIA BARK. FIRE-RESISTANT. GENERATIONS-DEEP.
§ 02 · The Method
Near-peer mentors.
The only voice they'll actually hear.
Gen Z filters out parents. They tune out teachers. They will, however, follow a 21-year-old Babson senior with a real internship at Goldman and a real portfolio. That's the whole model. Elite undergrads and incoming professionals — two steps ahead, close enough to be trusted.
Babson, Bentley, and peer institutions. Vetted for both track record and temperament.
Not tutors. Not therapists. Simulation instructors delivering a designed playbook.
Enough peer pressure to sharpen thinking. Small enough that no one hides.
§ 03 · The Curriculum
Structured like a balance sheet.
Taught like a case study.
No lectures. No worksheets. Students survive engineered financial shocks, negotiate adversarial scenarios, and defend positions under pressure. Every session earns a piece of the balance sheet.
Inflation as a silent tax. Compound interest in reverse. Emergency funds as insurance against panic decisions. Bank accounts, brokerage accounts, and the difference between saving, investing, and speculating.
§ 04 · Cohort Specs
Small.
Local.
Deliberate.
No apps. No dashboards. No 40-student webinars. Evergreen runs the way apprenticeship has always worked — in a room, with someone who's been through it recently.
- Cohort size
- 4–6 students
- Session
- 90 min – 2 hr, weekly
- Duration
- 4-week intensive burst
- Grade level
- 9th – 12th grade
- Format
- In-person only
- Venues
- Local libraries, Babson classrooms, private studies
- Territory
- Wellesley · Needham · Newton · Weston
- Pilot term
- Spring 2026
§ 05 · Origin
“A family loses its wealth in three generations because the third one was never taught to defend it. Evergreen exists so that doesn't happen on our watch.”
Founder · The Evergreen Foundry · Babson BETA Challenge
Spring 2026 · Enrollment open
Give them a
fair fight.
Reserve a seat in the Sequoia Program pilot cohort. We'll respond within 48 hours with a short intake call.
Or write directly · hello@evergreenfoundry.com