Y Combinator Launches Early Decision For Startup-Minded Students

Y Combinator Launches Early Decision For Startup-Minded Students

Y Combinator Launches ‘Early Decision’ For Students Who Want To Graduate First, Build Later For years, Silicon Valley has celebrated the college dropout founder. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg all left school early to chase big startup dreams. That culture was even encouraged by the Thiel Fellowship, which famously gave students $200,000 to skip college and start companies. Image : Google Y Combinator, the world’s most influential startup accelerator, has long played into that narrative. While it never required students to quit school, many of its most successful alumni—including Dropbox’s Drew Houston, Reddit’s Steve Huffman, and Stripe’s John and Patrick Collison—launched their companies at a young age and left college behind. Now, things are shifting. Y Combinator launches ‘Early Decision’ for students who want to graduate first, build later , changing how student founders can approach entrepreneurship. What Is YC’s Early Decision? The new Early Decision track is designed for…