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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by guelo on Monday January 20, 2025 @12:42PM (#42771080)
At the end of the essay he says "I’d be a better startup founder today than I was in 2015" and my thought was, yea but YC is biased towards college kids. And then I saw your comment and I think something clicked for me. But maybe the ignorance and pliability of youth really is required to make the crazy bet on the startup dream.
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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by rexpop on Monday January 20, 2025 @01:03PM (#42771318)
> pliability of youth

Not entirely dissimilar to the exploitation of eg college athletes.

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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by eastbound on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:57AM (#42777307)
The federation judged that even a college athlete who gets a major concussion cannot be offered a bottle of water for free, “because it could be assimilated to a wage”. No, really, college athletes are worse than unpaid.
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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by rexpop on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @11:24AM (#42781899)
Absolutely. I made my choice, and it was startups > athletics.
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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by amrocha on Monday January 20, 2025 @08:18PM (#42775256)
She. She says she prefers to go by she or they in her essay.
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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by mempko on Monday January 20, 2025 @08:28PM (#42775337)
The youth has energy and are naive and will take a bad deal. They will work hard while others will make money off their work. Also, the author is not a man.
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