Paul Graham: Why You Should Not Launch A Startup in High School

Paul Graham, The Cofounder of Startup Incubator Y Combinator, Said on Saturday That Students Should Think Twice before Launching Their Starts in High School.

“The THING TO DO Now Is To Learn New Things and Increase Your Skill at the Things You Already Know,” Graham Wrote in A Post on X.

“Startups are Rarely the optimal way to do.

Representatives for Graham at Y Combinator Did Not Respond to Requests for Comment from Business Insider.

Graham Said it probably is the best idea for a high schooler to start their entrepreneurship Journey Right Away, this thing though they Could from the Experience.

“You will Learn Things in a Startup, of Courte. But the way to leave the fastest is to work on what you’re curious about, and you don’t have that luxury in a startup. In a startup, you have to work on what ussever ussers want most,” he wrote in a Follow post on X.

Most prominent startup founders began their ventures after graduating from High School. Microsoft Founder Bill Gates and Meta Ceo Mark Zuckerberg Dropped out of Harvard During Their Junior and Sophomore Years, Respectively.

Some, Like Spacex Ceo Elon Musk and Airbnb Ceo Brian Chesky, Earned Their Bachelor’s Degree Before Starting Their First Companies.

Graham has posted career Advice on X. in August, Graham Said in A Series of X Posts that the best way to one -one in the age of he is to focus one’s passions.

“What he (in its current form) is good at is not so Much Certain Jobs, but a Certain Way of Working. It Good at Scutwork. SO THAT’S THE THING TO AVOID,” Graham Wrote.

In his post, graham Said Low-Level Programming Jobs “Are Already DisappeaRing.”

Top Programs, Meanwhile, Are Still “Being Paid Exceptional Amounts,” He Added.

“So if i had had to boil down my advice to one sentiment, it would be: Find a kind of work that you’re so interests in that you’ll to do it better than he can,” Graham wrote.