> My 20-year-old self didn’t consider joining a startup—or founding one—as a career option, but I hope you will.

I would think that the startup environment, and the job environment in general, is much different in 2015 than in 1993, which puts the framing analysis as a post-rationalization that's essentially comparing apple-and-oranges.

> And lastly, you will probably have to work long hours. But that wouldn’t have mattered to me in my 20s.

Isn't one of the primary criticisms of modern startups that they abuse naive fresh-out-of-college graduates?