Before the Startup
<i>What's an especially productive 22 year old to do?[...] If you're really productive, why not make employers pay market rate for you? Why go work as an ordinary employee for a big company, when you could start a startup and make them buy it to get you?</i>[0]<p><i>And though starting a startup can be part of a good life for a lot of ambitious people, age 20 is not the optimal time to do it.</i>[1]<p>PG seems to be giving contradictory advice or his stance seems to have changed on whether 20 year olds should start a startup<p>[0] <a href="http://paulgraham.com/hiring.html" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/hiring.html</a><p>[1] <a href="http://paulgraham.com/before.html" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/before.html</a>