Why do you regret chasing hot tech trends early in your engineering career?
Replied byGarry Tan
President & CEO at Y Combinator
Niche: Technology
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Started: 2005
I chased what was hot instead of focusing on my core expertise in web programming. I left web programming exactly when Mark Zuckerberg was building early versions of Facebook. I learned that you should not follow the crowd; when everyone says a sector is dead, that is often the perfect time to build in it.
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