The co-founder of Silicon Valley’s most influential startup accelerator is delivering a reality check to ambitious teenagers everywhere. Paul Graham, whose Y Combinator has funded giants like Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB), Stripe, Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX), and Reddit (NYSE:RDDT), is warning high schoolers to pump the brakes on their entrepreneurial dreams.
Graham's warning challenges the wave of social media stories celebrating teenage founders, stressing that high school years are better spent building skills than chasing the next billion-dollar startup, according to the Y Combinator co-founder.
