"So starting a startup is intrinsically something you can only really learn by doing it"
This makes absolutely no sense coming from somebody who built an empire giving advice to budding entrepreneurs.
This makes absolutely no sense coming from somebody who built an empire giving advice to budding entrepreneurs.
I would argue (and I'm sure that a lot of people would disagree), that one of the most important things that YC does is give budding entrepreneurs a chance to just get away from everything else in their life and completely focus on their startup.
He also caveats a lot of his points by saying that honestly, he really is never particularly certain which startups or set of founders is really going to take off.
At the end of the day, it's really up to them.