Even if you want to be a VC, you’re much better off starting or joining a startup, and getting partner offers when you’re 28. Plus, good founders want to work

Even if you want to be a VC, you’re much better off starting or joining a startup, and getting partner offers when you’re 28. Plus, good founders want to work with an investor that has operational experience. This is the kind of misleading startup bullshit that needs to stop. The vast majority of people who enter the startup racket are not getting partner-level VC offers 9 years later. The VC Valhalla that awaits failed startup founders doesn't really exist. That happens if you get extremely lucky (< 0.01%) or have rich parents, in which case normal advice doesn't apply. If you want to be a VC, get a Harvard MBA. It's a lot easier than doing a startup (you're competing against MBAs instead of hackers, which means that what good programmers would consider average intelligence would put you in the top 5%) and the path is surer. The reason risk-averse people prefer the MBA path is because (surprise?) it's more likely to work.