A question from a soon-to-be computer science graduate about career options in open blockchain development. Should a young person go the corporate route or the entrepreneurial route? What benefits and risks do the options entail? Would a "traditional" job still have the lifelong guarantee of security they used to? Being willing to take risks and fail gracefully, like Bitcoin, in the early years of your life by doing work that matters to you.

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0:00 What would you say to a new graduate who sees his friends working for bigger and better paying companies, who feels peer pressure to play the game, but sees this space as an important thing, and yet is not sure he has enough experience to make a difference.
1:55 A lot of people would much rather have job security instead of freedom
2:20 The "bigger and better paying companies" that give you this degree of security? It is an illusion
4:03 As an entrepreneur who is fiercely independent, I will give you the worst advice that I possibly can

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