Young founders in San Francisco are dropping out of Stanford to start companies, citing an AI inflection point. Precursor Ventures compares this to their own college days in the 2000s, when classmates did the same thing during the Internet boom.
A notable quote from an undergraduate Stanford student was quote it's kind of this AI inflection point where it felt like almost everyone I knew at Stanford was dropping out to co found a company. Charles, I wanted to get your honest opinion about this massive wave of younger founders opening up shop in SF and also see if it resembled any sort of boom during the 2000s. Or does this feel palpably different?
No, it feels the same. Well, the funny thing is, Marina and I were talking about this earlier this week because I was a college student during the Internet 1.0 boom at Stanford and my classmates were dropping out of school to start companies. I lived in a house with a bunch of guys and we thought about dropping out of school to start a company and we decided not to do it. We had eight co we.
