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Just in time for graduation season, Marc Andreessen is sharing his career advice for twenty-somethings.
"Don't follow your passion. Seriously. Don't follow your passion. Your passion is likely more dumb and useless than anything else. Your passion should be your hobby, not your work. Do it in your spare time," Andreessen wrote.
In a Q&A interview with Bloomberg opinion writer Noah Smith for his Substack newsletter, the famed venture capitalist told young people to set aside their passions and find opportunities to work in fast-growing sectors.
"Find the hottest, most vibrant part of the economy you can and figure out how you can contribute best and most," Andreessen, a cofounder of the esteemed venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, wrote in response to Smith's questions.
His advice is peculiar considering that Andreessen got rich and famous by following his own passion. At age 22, he prototyped one of the first web browsers while working on his computer science degree. After graduation, Andreessen took a job in Silicon Valley, where he met Jim Clark and they set out to bring the internet to the masses.
Now, Andreessen is using his fortunes to back the next generation of entrepreneurs, encouraging them to fight back the feeling that "all the exciting things have already happened" and "there's nothing left to do but maintain what already exists."
"This is just a failure of imagination. In fact, the opposite is true," he said. "We're surrounding by rotting incumbents that will all need to be replaced by new technologies. Let's get on it."
In other words, it's time to build.
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