This article got so many upvotes just because it's wrotten by Twitch's founder.
Why Should I Start a Startup?
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#302I'd like to fill out the "maybe" part of his "If you answer yes three times, then maybe starting a startup is for you" bit. I answer a very strong yes to all three of those. Always have. But a startup, despite my always having worked in them and run one of my own for three years, was resolutely not a good idea for me. It took a lot of self-discovery to see myself not as an entrepreneur, but as an artist, and it's fru…
I feel the same way (though I never ran my own startup). On the surface it would make sense for me to start companies. I tick most of the boxes, but at heart I'm more of an artist. Maybe 10 years ago I'd be interested in spending five years of my life for a 1% chance of getting better returns than working for a regular salary. Also I'm no longer in my 20s, not independently wealthy, and most importantly I don't want…
To make it as an artist appears to be much harder than to create a successful business, at least from the outsiders perspective.
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#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah something like 1% have wealthy families and something like 99% don't. YC has always been a program by the upper class and for the upper class. There's a reason YC doesn't publish economic diversity stats. It would be an indictment of their systemic bias. You're not better than the all of the 99 other people that didn't go to Yale/YC, you're just lucky that you were granted help instead of them. And yet it never…
I didn't grow up in the 1 percent and the vast majority of people I know in YC didn't either.
I think they minced the argument a bit bringing up the 1%. I didn't grow up in the 1% but I absolutely have a support system if anything in my life were to ever arise.
Re: Why Should I Start a Startup?
#304I really like the way intellect is defined in this post. It's mostly persistence that guides you to success.