Joking about subprime

Career advice from Marc Andreessen

If you are young and want to have an impact, you want to be in an industry where there is a lot of growth and change and flux and opportunity.

If you're going to enter an old industry, make sure to do it on the side of the forces of radical change that threaten to up-end the existing order.

Once you have picked an industry, get right to the center of it as fast as you can.

Never worry about being a small fish in a big pond. Being a big fish in a small pond sucks -- you will hit the ceiling on what you can achieve quickly, and nobody will care. Optimize at all times for being in the most dynamic and exciting pond you can find. That is where the great opportunities can be found

Apply this rule when selecting which company to go to. Go to the company where all the action is happening.

Also apply this rule when selecting which city to live in. Go to the city where all the action is happening.