No matter how much we don't talk about it, Internet Credentials are becoming a thing.
80% of going to college is signalling that “I am a hard working person who was one of the few people that went to Stanford/Harvard”.
GitHub acts as a resume for Developers, Behance serves as a resume for Designers, Personal Blogs serve as a resume for Writers.
Other than this, having names such as YC, Thiel Fellow on the resume serves as “high potential individual” in the early career.
One more recent trend which we are seeing a lot of young people on Twitter coming up, interacting with the best people from the industry and thereby getting discovered.
Keith Rabois has said it multiple times that he has met and hired people and funded companies completely based on their tweets/Quora answers.
Places such as Twitter, Github, Behance are steadily becoming the place where people join sub-groups of their choice, share and contribute ideas, connect with top people in the industry, and BREAK IN.
I think my Twitter account is worth more than my college degree- David Perell
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