I took the observations in this article as arguments in favour of doing a startup straight out of school. Having experienced the problems it mentions first-hand

I took the observations in this article as arguments in favour of doing a startup straight out of school. Having experienced the problems it mentions first-hand (since I was not so wise as to do a startup straight out of school), my logic is: 1. You will be inefficient at a corporate job due to the overhead of integrating with a team, an organization, and understanding a large codebase. 2. Startups don't have inefficiencies due to large teams, large organizations, or large codebases. 3. You will be more efficient in a startup. 4. Through greater efficiency, you can create more wealth in a startup than in a big company. As a side-effect, when you spend time in a big company, you become better at dealing with the large organization and the large codebase. Thus, the marginal value of leaving for a startup decreases, which creates one more lock-in.