Fresh grads creating a startup before they&#x27;ve worked at one, or been closely mentored by another founder, leads to repeating a lot of unnecessary founder mistakes.<p>I think it&#x27;s far better to be an early to mid-stage startup employee out of school vs. start a company directly.  It&#x27;s also really nice to be able to focus on things like just product or code vs. how to make the business successful, customers, legal, BD, etc.