Found on that orange website that was founded by Paul Graham. I can imagine a large cadre of Graham’s fanboys at that site will not take very well to this article, especially in the comment section.
(Quoting this article, which quotes Graham)In “Why to Not Not Start a Startup”, Paul Graham writes:
“So, paradoxically, if you’re too inexperienced to start a startup, what you should do is start one. That’s a way more efficient cure for inexperience than a normal job. In fact, getting a normal job may actually make you less able to start a startup, by turning you into a tame animal who thinks he needs an office to work in and a product manager to tell him what software to write.”
Let me be blunt: that’s nonsense. It paints a black and white picture of the world that simply doesn’t exist. You don’t have to choose between starting a startup and working a soul-crushing job as a “tame animal” in a cubicle. There’s a whole spectrum of possibilities in between! For instance, you could work for yourself or with a small team, making use of your creativity and coming up with your own ideas.
Paul wants you to start a startup because he wants to fund you and profit from your hard work. His motives are purely egoistical.
If you happen to hit the startup jackpot, Paul gets even richer and you might become wealthy too. If you don’t, you’re left with nothing while Paul, already rich, gets to write an essay about your failure.
That’s a whole lot of risk for very little upside.
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