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this is the essay i had in mind http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html

• ryanwaggoner 16y ago
  Did you read it? I get pretty much the exact opposite of "school is stupid, everyone should drop out and start companies!" When we first started Y Combinator we encouraged people to start startups while they were still in college. That's partly because Y Combinator began as a kind of summer program. We've kept the program shape—all of us having dinner together once a week turns out to be a good idea—but we've decided now that the party line should be to tell people to wait till they graduate.