HOW UNIVERSITIES SHOULD PREPARE FOUNDERS

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Microsoft and Meta both started during Harvard's reading period, when students are on campus with nothing due the next day. The hard part of a startup is product - knowing what to build and being able to build it - so universities should fund computer science, mechanical engineering, and molecular biology over entrepreneurship curricula. Business plan competitions train founders to impress investors with a story instead of impressing users. YC application data has Harvard alumni applying at about twice the rate of Yale and Princeton alumni, which is credited to culture and exposure.