Paul Graham on Twitter: "I used to think it would be better to work for some other company for a while before starting a startup, but I changed my mind. Nothing teaches you about startups like actually starting one.… https://t.co/QVkV0DQszu"

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1. Tim Spalding‏ @librarythingtim 20 Mar 2020
  Replying to @paulg @a_zarglayoun @naval
  
  Like getting a degree, having friends, not being a teenager, spending some time in a "normal" company gives you some perspective and wisdom. A lot of startups flame out from the errors people who don't know anything outside their tiny startup bubble.
  
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1. anime.radio‏ @anime_virus 20 Mar 2020
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1. rishab‏ @rishab_chirania 20 Mar 2020
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  Working at a good very early stage startup under a great founder can help one learn hiring/lean product development/starting culture and good management I learnt about importance of “doing things that dont scale” while working for a YC company :)
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1. ShriramKrishnamurthi‏ @ShriramKMurthi 20 Mar 2020
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  But working elsewhere teaches you a lot of other things: concrete problems peers don't know [*], how (not) to structure a workplace, etc. [*] @levie has eloquently made the point that there's a lot of money in building tools for businesses but 22yos don't know about the needs.
  
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1. Raghav‏ @raghavar0 20 Mar 2020
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  Perhaps both aren't mutually exclusive. Your advice applies really well to startups- work at one before running one. Things get crazy and if we don't know what to expect, we are riding on luck. A job at Goldman Sachs or even Google for that matter won't prepare us for startups.
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