How Universities Should Prepare Founders

Paul Graham argues that universities prepare founders through deep knowledge, a habit of building, and room for students’ own projects. Students and educators can compare those conditions with programs that emphasize pitching an idea before making something users want.

2 sections · 5 lessons

Course outline

Knowledge and permission to build

  1. Useful expertise comes before startup theater
  2. Relatable founders make the option feel possible

Projects students own

  1. Projects develop more than an idea
  2. Unassigned time can be productive infrastructure
  3. A prototype and a pitch answer different questions

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