## Metadata - Author: [[gideon-lewis-kraus|Gideon Lewis Kraus]] - Full Title:: No Exit - Category:: #📚Books - Finished date:: [[2023-02-02]] ## Highlights > “When you have an early-stage company,” he said, “there’s no time to hang out at a cool, trendy bar.” He was 23. The bar might have been cool and trendy in Miami in 2004. ([Location 267](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JNZRKAQ&location=267)) - Note: Lolazo. Y susituyendo "company" por cualquer otra cosa. > just like the many other entrepreneurs who came to look at having a failed startup as an alternative to graduate school. ([Location 284](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JNZRKAQ&location=284)) > This is the story of thousands upon thousands of Valley founders who began with a consumer-facing dream and found themselves running B2B businesses. ([Location 403](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JNZRKAQ&location=403)) > The kid from Appalachia agreed that there was no longer a point to college. Most of the people at the flophouse had dropped out. “The whole university system,” he said, “is going to be made obsolete because of technology.” ([Location 438](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JNZRKAQ&location=438)) > “Maybe Microsoft cares if you have a degree, but the startups don’t, and the companies that care about preserving startup culture don’t. It’s a meritocracy out here. ([Location 443](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JNZRKAQ&location=443)) > “I can teach myself whatever I need on a webinar in a coffee shop. ([Location 449](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JNZRKAQ&location=449))