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cdixon | The only college major that matters

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Chris Dixon's blog.

If you want to work in venture capital focusing on internet/software companies, or start one of those companies, or work as an employee in any role at one of those companies, there is only one undergraduate major you should consider: computer science.* I’m not saying you need a computer science degree, but I am saying it’s incredibly helpful to know computer science. Lots of great computer scientists are self taught. But almost all of them started coding in their teens. If you are a coder already and want to spend your college years majoring in something else for the heck of it, great. I spent

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