""The thing to do now is to learn new things and increase your skill at the things you already know," Graham wrote in a post on X. "Startups are rarely the optimal way to do this. The point of a startup is to make something people want, not to learn," he added."
""You will learn things in a startup, of course. But the way to learn the fastest is to work on whatever you're most curious about, and you don't have that luxury in a startup. In a startup, you have to work on whatever users want most," he wrote in a follow-up post on X."
""What AI (in its current form) is good at is not so much certain jobs, but a certain way of working. It's good at scutwork. So that's the thing to avoid," Graham wrote."
Students should prioritize learning new things and increasing existing skills instead of launching startups in high school. Startups exist to make something users want, which constrains the freedom to pursue curiosity-driven projects and may not be the fastest way to learn. Practical startup experience still teaches, but focused, curiosity-led work accelerates learning more effectively. Many well-known founders began major ventures after high school or college, with some dropping out and others completing degrees first. In the age of AI, protecting careers involves honing passions and avoiding low-level scutwork that AI can perform.
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