Lenny RachitskyHost of Lenny's Podcast | Author of Lenny's Newsletter

New grads should be excited right now

21 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Lenny Rachitsky encouraging new graduates and junior professionals, arguing that despite rumors of scarce junior roles, now is an excellent time to be a junior because it's easier than ever to build bootstrapped startups using AI. The speaker emphasizes curiosity, hard work, kindness, and communication as key advantages that can outperform more experienced workers.

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It's the best time to be a junior. Contrary to what a lot of people are saying how there's no more junior roles out there and people get out of school and you can't find a role. Yeah, that's true. But also, when else in history could you get out of school and just build a startup on your own with a couple of friends completely bootstrapped? Towards the end of my time at wix, I was interviewing and I saw more and more people building their own stuff with AI. It's the best time to be a learner. If you're a curious person, you're a hard working person, you're a kind person and a good communicator, you have such an unfair advantage and you can give more value to companies than most people who have 20 years of experience.