Ask HN: What do I do with my Stanford CS degree?
Quick background:<p>Stanford BS CS. (Published some deep learning papers, interned at NASA, studied abroad at Oxford). Got my first job out of school at FB. Hated it, quit 6 months later. Tried to build out a startup in the IaaS space. Raised from family and friends. Spent two years on this, worked out of a VC office, hired a small team. Failed. Tried again with another idea. Failed again. Alienated my friends and investors that had helped me when I left FB.<p>All I have on my resume now are two failed startups (rejected from YC multiple times) and FB (where I left very quickly). Bootstrapped &#x2F; friends and family raise each time.<p>Feel stuck about what to do next.<p>My time at FB has shown me that I don&#x27;t want another engineering job. Doing coding as a career just doesn&#x27;t interest me. I enjoyed CS for theory and AI, and for short internship bursts, but working as an engineer in a professional context just isn&#x27;t for me.<p>My eventual goal is to start another company. Instead of doing that again right away, I would rather get some industry experience first and build out my 401k for a bit. Rather than getting more coding experience under my belt, I would prefer to learn the other side of the trade: investing, product development, working <i>with</i> engineers to build great products.<p>People that get hired for these product jobs usually have an MBA, or worked at Goldman for 2 years before transitioning. Interviewing for these jobs gets me a no, since I have no business experience. Which I guess makes sense. But I don&#x27;t know how to build this experience outside of school.<p>Q1: Is my only option at this point an engineering position? Is there no place for a technologist to work in a business development context, or as an investor?<p>Q2: What jobs can a Stanford undergrad degree get me that another degree won&#x27;t? It is about the only &#x27;impressive&#x27; thing on my resume at this point, and I don&#x27;t know what else to sell about myself.