Why Top Tech CEOs Want Employees With Liberal Arts Degrees
An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens The future of innovation and technology in government for the greater good Fast Company's annual ranking of businesses that are making an outsize impact Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system Celebrating the best ideas in business Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen once said that the average English degree holder is fated to become a shoe salesman, hawking wares to former classmates who were lucky enough to have majored in math. Meanwhile, PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, who studied philosophy at Stanford, refers to degrees like his as “antiquated debt-fueled luxury goods.” Faced with such attacks on the liberal arts, it’s no wonder that interest in the humanities is waning. As the college year begins, many students are likely to take President Obama’s
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