>> I spent some time, obviously, doing, you know, undergrad and business courses,
so I think business course is always a great foundation.
I would always argue that having strong quantitative skills are super useful
for your resume, and to have a functional understanding of, maybe not the be all end all.
And what I mean by that is, you know, some of the greatest things I did, you know,
in my undergrad and my early career were, you know, taking the econ courses, the calcs,
the things that are not necessarily sexy courses, but you know,
they may get your more interviews, because people are looking for ways
to connect numbers back to business outcomes.
On the programming languages, I love Code Academy.
If anybody wants to leverage that, [inaudible], which tells you kind of how to do things,
Coda Academy actually lets you code it out and practice it, which is great.
Outside of that, there's a qualitative and, kind of, a creative understanding that you need
to have to, again, turn those numbers into something useful for people.
So, you know, I read a lot of business books, you know, what's coming next, you know,
interesting stories, machine learning, you know,
which probably isn't interesting to some people, but it's useful.
Understanding kind of what people can do with data, where data can go.
And also, understanding consumer trends.
I think, if you're ever in consumer business, that's the hardest thing
to do, is keep up on consumer trends.
So I'm constantly reading about, you know,
what are consumers doing differently, what are young consumers doing?
Everybody wants to know, you know, what's going on with gen z, you know, they don't use Facebook
as much, but they use Snapchat more.
Why? And so understanding those trends, and sort of where the next breed
of consumers is coming from is so useful.
And I also just think, generally speaking, you know, it gets the creative juices going
when you start to thing about those things.