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Max Hodak - Avoid little leagues

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Little leagues are places where you’ll develop more slowly, to an asymptote that’s lower than it might be elsewhere. The undergraduate investment club is a little league for being a professional analyst. TEDx is a little league for TED. Little leagues are relative: being an intern at a technology company at thirteen or taking non-AP Calculus at eight probably don’t count as little leagues. When I went back to school after my first company, a friend tried to pull me into an “entrepreneurship” group he was putting together. They had some smart people working on some interesting things, and though I was concerned that it would suffer from the ordinary, boring infant diseases of undergraduate projects, what really pushed me away was the feeling that even if a member’s “startup” was successful in that context, it would still only be a student project. It attempted to recreate a hard, complex process that requires years of your life in a fleeting, riskless environment. No matter how well a s

One of my oldest personal rules is avoid little leagues. Little leagues are places where you’ll develop more slowly, to an asymptote that’s lower than it might be elsewhere. The undergraduate investment club is a little league for being a professional analyst. TEDx is a little league for TED. Little leagues are relative: being an intern at a technology company at thirteen or taking non-AP Calculus at eight probably don’t count as little leagues. When I went back to school after my first company, a friend tried to pull me into an “entrepreneurship” group he was putting together. They had…

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