You weren’t meant to have a boss, argues Paul Graham. Well, actually Paul, I wasn’t meant to work- I was created to spend my life in leisure, enjoying the better things in life, traveling, meeting fascinating people…….. Oh wait, no, that’s my fantasy projection of myself…
“The problem with starting a startup while you’re still in school is that there’s a built-in escape hatch. If you start a startup in the summer between your junior and senior year, it reads to everyone as a summer job. So if it goes nowhere, big deal; you return to school in the fall with all the other seniors; no one regards you as a failure, because your occupation is student, and you didn’t fail at that. Whereas if you start a startup just one year later, after you graduate, as long as you’re not accepted to grad school in the fall the startup reads to everyone as your occupation. You’re now a startup founder, so you have to do well at that.”
-Paul Graham
Thanks to our LinkedIn contact, Chris Carpinello.
