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This seems like a silly thing to spend five minutes of your time researching, as that is five minutes that isn't building a company (unicorn trajectory or other
by patio11 11y ago
This seems like a silly thing to spend five minutes of your time researching, as that is five minutes that isn't building a company (unicorn trajectory or otherwise), but be that as it may the answer is "Yes, of course there are founders of companies at all levels of success who didn't go to private prep schools and then Harvard/Stanford/etc."
I had five pegged off the top of my head, plus the obvious answer of "Run down the list of foreign-born founders you know." I'll elide naming them to avoid even the appearance of suggesting there is something magic about particular universities: all of their companies speak for themselves.
- woah 11y agoIt doesn't seem to silly to research aspects of the startup ecosystem that one is part of.
- caseysoftware 11y agoOnly if that is a factor contributing to or reducing the likelihood of success. If it's completely orthogonal, it is a waste of time because that's time you could use doing/learning something that does contribute.
- bigmanwalter 11y agoIf you know of any way to conclusively test whether or not something will eventually be useful I'd love to hear more about it.
- aidenn0 11y ago> This seems like a silly thing to spend five minutes of your time researching, as that is five minutes that isn't building a company Is learning for the sake of curiosity now a complete waste of time? I've never spent a single minute building a company, so how many of those minutes are a waste of time?