For whoever wants to re-read one of the articles that mentions the idea, there you go: https://paulgraham.com/before.html#f7n:~:text=You%20can%20do...

What that article says is "don't start a startup in college". That is what pg has always said, and is not at all what the GP comment imputes to him.

More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375715.