Pick your major wisely.

If your founder god is …

Joe Lonsdale and Stephen Cohen (Palantir), Brian Acton

(WhatsApp), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Leonard Bosack and

Sandy Lerner (Cisco),

or David Shaw (D.E. Shaw)

Go for computer science

If you’re emulating …

Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marissa Mayer (Google, Yahoo), or Mike Krieger (Instagram)

Symbolic systems is for you

(Yes, that’s a real major, mixing big-picture theory and programming practice)

If you worship …

Kevin Systrom (Instagram) Try management science and engineering

If you’re more into …

Bill Hewett and David Packard (HP)

or Jerry Yang and David Filo (Yahoo) They all picked electrical engineering