so are you saying all those people are not some random spectators of the show but super bowl crew? Or random spectators who guarantee that they wont move from their predefined position?
Not super hard to believe that the NFL was able to recruit Houston natives to do this for free in exchange for a close up concert with Lady Gaga and being on national TV.
I think the basic problem is that people are not going to give you any money at all! Let it be bitcoin or their dollars. Or if this project works out, would be pretty interesting!
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Most people are not suited to it. I'd be surprised if more than 1% of people are. And even for those few, it's a mistake to start too young. If a startup succeeds, it takes over your life in a way that cuts off lots of other opportunities. It's a mistake to do that sort of pruning before you understand what you're losing by it.
I wouldn't advise people to try to start startups before about 23. Before that you should be exploring.
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Oh Silicon Valley. I've been in tech in the Bay Area for about 5 years now, regularly attending various events and being a part of the community, and most startup founders under 30-35 are ridiculously naive and boring, with very little to show over time. People over 30 with a decade or so of industry and work experience tend to be much more realistic and methodical about what they're doing (I'm 25).
PG is very successful and has some interesting things to say, but it's important to keep in mind that taking advice from someone whose vision of startups in the last 10 years came exclusively from manning YCombinator is going to be deeply biased.
I'm kinda confused. It looked like you are also confirming PG's observation but you ended with a skeptical tone.
Anyway this was interesting to me because most people tend to overly support youngster's into entrepreneurship but this looked more realistic and practical.
The thing is that the age he gives (23) is so low that it's at odds with the principle, the same way as if I said "kids should wait till they're a bit older to drink alcohol, like after 8 years old" and someone disagreed and said 18 years old is a better age, they wouldn't just be agreeing with the principle and disagreeing with the number.
My favorite sentence was "Most people are not special, not talented in any valuable way and there are most certainly not Michalangelos sat in every office cubicle in the modern world." :D
