The Other Money Problem

Re:The Other Money Problem by jsnell on Thursday December 11, 2014 @04:28PM (#8737149)

> If he tells you not to start a start-up, his co-founder wife, and all the start-up friends he’s made over the last several years, will be mad at him.

One of his essays from a couple of months ago very clearly made the point that a certain group of people shouldn't be doing startups (college students). That certainly seemed to be a big change in attitude to the essays from 10 years ago, and exactly in the opposite direction compared to your theory.

Edit: http://paulgraham.com/before.html

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Re:The Other Money Problem by friendstock on Thursday December 11, 2014 @05:11PM (#8737334)

Regarding college students, I think this is a matter of becoming more responsible in his advice, now that he's become so prominent.

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Re:The Other Money Problem by michaelochurch on Thursday December 11, 2014 @05:14PM (#8737346)

More to the point, he has more data.

The startup world is a community that only wants to hear from the successes. Those who fail are laughed off as being bitter. PG has enough insight and decency to see a larger spectrum and speak on it.

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Re:The Other Money Problem by chetanahuja on Friday December 12, 2014 @03:10AM (#8739001)

And a parent (as the beginning of the essay mentions).

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Re:The Other Money Problem by zeeshanm on Friday December 12, 2014 @11:55AM (#8741165)

I'd think this specific remark was to discourage those who want to start a startup because it's cool. And those who really want to do it they are going to do it anyway. No matter what anyone says.

So, I guess, this advice works for everyone, in one way or another.

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