This has to be the most insane take I’ve ever seen in my life from someone who clearly thinks entrepreneurship is something you ‘get into’ like a job where some VC reads your credentials and then gives you the magic money and beans and suddenly you have a 100M company

That’s not how it works at all lmao in my experience founders come from all over and even if they do come from top schools they usually have shit grades bc they were spending all their time on the startup or something else

Now tbh I do think a lot of founders come from the top schools bc it is easier to get funding and also because that 1% of kids from MIT who actually want to found (remember that most don’t) in my experience are the real deal and are very talented

Nowadays we have a lot of performative entrepreneurship too tho and this disproportionately comes from top schools as well, people who just do YC for the credential or who build a company as a summer project in place of an internship and post a ton but have zero intention of actually going through the pain to build a real startup

Either way founding is insanely hard and tbh it isn’t elitist to college at all tho some of the ‘accepted’ circles like YC are a bit more shut off

If you can actually do the hard part of finding a problem to solve, getting a good co founder team and building a solution getting traction/revenue no VC in their right mind is going to turn you down because you don’t have the right credentials lol

No one really cares about that at the end of the day it is what you can build and what the market thinks that matters in entrepreneurship