Dear Class of 2017...
Congratulations! You’ve just accomplished something I never managed to do — earn a college degree.
Between your commencement speaker and every aunt and uncle at your graduation party, I am sure you are getting a lot of advice. At the risk of piling on, I thought I would share a few thoughts.
New college graduates often ask me for career advice. I was lucky to be in my early 20s when the digital revolution was just getting underway, and Paul Allen and I had the chance to help shape it. (Which explains my lack of a college degree: I left school because we were afraid the revolution would happen without us.)
If I were starting out today and looking for the same kind of opportunity to make a big impact in the world, I would consider three fields.