This is the only part of the article I don't agree with: In the end, it wouldn’t have benefitted me to stay in school longer, and Y Combinator was too good

This is the only part of the article I don't agree with: In the end, it wouldn’t have benefitted me to stay in school longer, and Y Combinator was too good of an opportunity to pass up. How do you know there would be no benefit to finishing your degree? It may be beneficial in the short term. However, you have (hopefully) many years to live and making a guess like that is silly, in my opinion. While I think it is admirable that you got into Hacker News and are following your dream, I think there is something to say about learning to focus and get decent grades, even if you are not into it 100%. It shows that you can stick to some form of an obligation and follow through with something that you may not want to do. I can't remember exactly which VC said this but here is a paraphrase: Not making it through college when something new comes up doesn't bode well when I give you a ton of money for a long term commitment. Will "something else" come up during that time?