> It often feels like 99% of “startup wisdom” comes down to “have a rich family that supported you emotionally and then paid for your college, and then let you

> It often feels like 99% of “startup wisdom” comes down to “have a rich family that supported you emotionally and then paid for your college, and then let you start a company at their house for free” Or perhaps more to the point, "the best ideas to try are the ones you need investment to try, and oh hey that's what we do here. Don't go building a business that's profitable from the start, where YC can't own part of it. All that internal pressure to make money early on isn't good for you; what you want is external pressure to make LOTS of money later on, assuming your social network for pigs didn't fail."