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Paul Graham tells universities to stop teaching entrepreneurship and just cut course requirements so students have time to build
Graham's new essay 'How Universities Should Prepare Founders' argues the whole job costs nothing extra: strengthen the CS, engineering and molecular biology departments, cut required coursework so students have real free time for their own projects, put founders in front of students, and skip the entrepreneurship classes and business plan competitions entirely. He addresses the obvious objection directly, arguing CS is still worth studying when AI writes the code because the value is in problem decomposition and managing engineering. It took 242 points and 294 comments on Hacker News, where the loudest pushback was that student debt, not curriculum, is what actually stops people from founding companies.
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