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Dropout tech founders (e.g. Gates, Zuckerberg) have been (rightfully? poorly?) lionized to the public and youth. “Startup founder” is now a job title as prestigious as any other, since the Bay Area VC complex has made “getting into YC” as selective as Harvard. There's a particular pull to the idea of a barely-legal child genius, so visionary that they left school behind to pursue their startup with a single-minded devotion. My argument is that these kind of founders are an exception, and they're getting rarer. All the problems that are obvious to sophomore CS students, such as dating, food delivery, coding and social networking, are fairly well-covered by startups now. Zuckerberg was a sophomore who noticed he was at the right time in the Internet's deployment, facing the right problem at the right school, which is why his company succeeded, not because he dropped out to do it. In fact, he had way, way more conviction and evidence that his idea would work than your average contempora

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