Discuss: ‘Get into tech’ is the best advice for aspiring entrepreneurs

My advice is to make sure you get into tech.

That advice isn’t just for entrepreneurs. When I was graduating, the smartest graduates went for investment banking. Now, they are going into tech. This isn’t some bubble, but rather the cusp of a much bigger trend.

The pace of change in tech is accelerating. This means more and more opportunities, more and more unicorns, and more and more tech millionaires and billionaires will arise, all at an increasing rate.

There will be peaks and troughs. For example, the smartphone created a new surge of innovation, which will slow down at some point until the next wave of technology grabs hold. But we will see wave after wave of technological revolutions, and each revolution will be faster and bigger than the previous one, as human knowledge and human connectivity increase exponentially.

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We are at the start of the greatest shift in humanity ever. You cannot be blind to what is going on in the world.

This was first posted on Quora.

Let’s discuss:

• Is the industry the most important consideration for entrepreneurship?
• Do you agree that the smartest graduates now go into tech fields?
• How about you? What advice would you give an 18-year-old entrepreneur?

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