Ask HN: Is Paul Graham right that you shouldn't build startups at 17?

This is an example of "statistically good advice, but there are exceptions." For a famous list of exceptions, https://www.inc.com/business-insider/founders-who-started-fa...

I would also look up the term "survivorship bias". The above exceptions are famous precisely because there are so few examples of successful teenage founders.

Building a startup is learning so he is probably wrong. The problem is 15-17 years old kids "hustling", trying to create a business to make money, creating posts like "I created X as a 16 old teenager" trying to hack spaces to reach an audience. Just do it for the learning.

Paul Graham describes what worked for him (with lots of chance involved) as a universal

ig he never said do not build anyway, just treat it as practice