Deliberately forgoing a rounded education to start a business 3 years earlier is very short term thinking. It may enable people to follow their instincts and th

Deliberately forgoing a rounded education to start a business 3 years earlier is very short term thinking. It may enable people to follow their instincts and the lead of others with similar backgrounds, but robs bright people of an opportunity to be challenged, persuaded or to change path based on deeper understanding. Many of the biggest problems in the current tech space are born of founders who in their mid thirties discover ideas and people they would have encountered in their teens in University. Zuckerberg, Musk and others are staggeringly incurious about anything which wasn’t always their passion and have never been required to confront ideas and concepts they have no affinity to. Some of these people will succeed monetarily but none of them will be better people for knowing less. I have never met a founder who failed to grasp business because they were “wasting” time studying other things. In fact the best engineers I have ever employed have come from non engineering backgrounds and brought with them a wealth of perspective and insight.