Harvard Grads Taking Wall Street Jobs

Anybody see this article? ~15% of Harvard grads say they'r going to Wall Street. What do you guys think about this?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-29/harvard-grads-taking-wall-stre…

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Only 15% are going into finance. Brutal economy, and finance has lost its luster among the nation's best and brightest. Tech and startups are the hot thing at Harvard.

 

Not really surprising given the environment and the fact we are in the beginning of a tech bubble where any one with a little know how can hack out some half bit program and sell it to a big tech firm for tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Not really surprising given the environment and the fact we are in the beginning of a tech bubble where any one with a little know how can hack out some half bit program and sell it to a big tech firm for tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars.

That's really misleading. The percentage of those people who actually make big money off of their ideas is very small.

 

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