Paul Graham wrote about what YC looks for in startup founders in 2010 [0]. The first thing he notes is that intelligence wasn't anywhere near as important as th

Paul Graham wrote about what YC looks for in startup founders in 2010 [0]. The first thing he notes is that intelligence wasn't anywhere near as important as they expected it would be. And I think pg had a much better definition of intelligence than "academic achievements and standardized test scores." So I don't think this paper is really making a strong-man case for parent's income being the most important factor in entrepreneurship, they've ignored all 5 aspects that experts like pg think are the actual most important factors and focused on one that he thinks isn't as important as people think it is. [0] http://paulgraham.com/founders.html http://paulgraham.com/founders.html