Marc Andreessen’s advice to college students interested in startups

If I'm 22 again, I think what I do is I go try to find the best, the hottest company, the company in the valley that's growing the fastest and that has a really good culture and a really good foundation for training. And so an example of that would be an Airbnb, but there are many others even, by the way, still Facebook. I would go try to. I go plant myself at a company where I can really learn. Okay, fast forward now. You're 25, you've got your three years at Airbnb. What are you starting? Well, so I spend that time. So one is I work my butt off to establish a good reputation so that when people reference check me, right, I reference check well. But the other is I spend that time thinking and I really critically, I spend that time building my network and the people who I know that I want to work with, you know, down the road. And then I either, yeah, I either come up with an idea or I don't. But I would focus much. I think it's very hard, and I'm deliberately avoiding your question because I think it's very hard to answer in the abstract. Let me answer it a different way. If I were 18 and I were going to college, I would do. I would really, I would do computer science again in a heartbeat. And then I would either focus on cryptocurrency, distributed systems and the broad domain of cryptocurrency, number one, number two, AI, machine learning, deep learning, or number three, intersection of bio, biology and cs, so genomics and synthetic biology. I would personally, I would do those. One of those three areas. And the hard part for me would be picking between them, because I think they're all. They're all. To me, it just seems like all three of those are going to have transformative work happen in the next 20 years. It's going to change a lot of how the world works.