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Startup Insider: (Don’t) Follow Your Passion

By Early Investing on July 8, 2021

Venture capital legend Marc Andreessen — founder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of the earliest architects of the internet — has some advice for young people. Don’t follow your passion. “Your passion is likely more dumb and useless than anything else. Your passion should be your hobby, not your work. Do it in your spare time,” he told blogger Noah Smith. It sounds pessimistic. But in the same interview, Andreessen goes on to say this: It can sometimes feel that…