Finance can easily beat CS if you don’t become an entrepreneur in earnings, but they are closer in risk-neutral returns if one goes the entrepreneurial route. Much would depend on which is a better fit for you.
It’s true that it could be that for a given person, if you consider
A = the direct impact of entrepreneurship
A’ = earning to give via entrepreneurship
B = earning to give in finance
C = the direct impact of entrepreneurship plus earning to give via entrepreneurship
then
A, A’ < B < C
I tend to think that people who are equally good at finance and entrepreneurship (in the sense of being in the same percentile of each pool of people) should do entrepreneurship: either A or A’ could be bigger than B separately, and when taken together all the moreso.
No, I’m not. That’s not a nitpick. Quoting Carl Shulman:
It’s true that it could be that for a given person, if you consider
A = the direct impact of entrepreneurship
A’ = earning to give via entrepreneurship
B = earning to give in finance
C = the direct impact of entrepreneurship plus earning to give via entrepreneurship
then
A, A’ < B < C
I tend to think that people who are equally good at finance and entrepreneurship (in the sense of being in the same percentile of each pool of people) should do entrepreneurship: either A or A’ could be bigger than B separately, and when taken together all the moreso.
Thanks!