YC Co-Founder Who Backed Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit Says High School Isn’t the Time to Launch a Startup

YC co-founder who backed Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit says high school isn’t the time to launch a startup

One of the leaders behind Silicon Valley’s biggest start-ups is advising high school students to embrace learning before starting their dream business.

Why Paul Graham advises against founding a startup in high school

"The thing to do now is to learn new things and increase your skill at the things you already know. Startups are rarely the optimal way to do this," Paul Graham wrote on X on Saturday.Y CombinatorPaul Graham is the cofounder of Y Combinator.The startup incubator has funded several prominent companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit.Graham said students are better off learning new things than founding startups in high school.Paul Graham, the …