-: Certainly for starting a tech company
and something that involves building actual technology,
it's certainly helpful to have a degree in something
that relates to technology.
If you're an engineer, you're in science,
you're used to building things, building products
can get behind a computer and write some code.
There's a lot of value to that.
There's of course the business side,
so having an MBA or having a business degree
can be helpful if you can learn some fundamentals
of things to learn there,
but that being said, there's tons and tons engineers,
or tons and tons of start up founders,
technical and nontechnical that are philosophy majors,
or that are history majors.
You can't really bank on a degree to get you somewhere.
That's kind of a starting point
and you're gonna have to keep learning a lot after that.
When I started getting into entrepreneurship,
I was involved in business plan competitions
and had fun doing those.
I think the number one thing is building things really.
It's about building projects
and projects can be for a class,
but they can also be independently figure out how to
make stuff and see what kind of things that you can make
that people will use and people are excited about.
The number one thing is people that are doers.
If you have two students, for example,
and one of them launched a project out of their dorm room
and got a whole bunch of users.
Whether or not they made any money.
Like someone that is actually launched a project
and has had to deal with the whole can of worms
that is launching something in the world
and supporting users making a product.
You learn so much through
that someone like that definitely stands out versus someone
that's kind of gone through and done course work
or had an internship or something.