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I've always sort of admired people in the entertainment industry for their ambition and determination. Someone who is taking time off studying CS at Stanford a

I've always sort of admired people in the entertainment industry for their ambition and determination. Someone who is taking time off studying CS at Stanford and trying to make a company work is not taking a risk of remotely the same magnitude as someone dropping out of highschool, getting a GED, and working in the music industry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesha#Childhood_and_youth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesha#Childhood_and_youth). If you're a programmer, you have so much to bank on (the CS knowledge/degree) and even if you fail people will be pretty understanding. Try getting a good job in any industry with music skills and a GED. At the end of the day, a technical stopout founder is taking a smaller risk (really, losing the college experience) for a bigger potential reward (billions) and attractive intermediate rewards (talent acquisition). And frankly, the odds of making it big as a programmer (industry celebrity-big) are not very different from the odds of making it big as a musician (standard celebrity-big).

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- zaidf 16y ago
  It would have been more admirable if her mother could walk on one leg.
palish 16y ago
Kesha described herself in an interview as being "very studious" in high school; she would drive to Belmont University to listen in on Cold War history classes after school and achieved "near perfect" SAT scores.[7] However, she dropped out at age seventeen and earned her GED afterward.[9] She left school after being convinced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin to return to Los Angeles to pursue a music career. They had received Kesha's demo after Pebe passed it to Samantha Cox, senior director of writer/publisher relations at BMI, and were impressed. Why would she pass up that kind of opportunity? If it didn't work out, she could always go back to college.
- gruseom 16y ago
  Ha. A friend of my father-in-law used to be a Montreal hipster. She and her husband ran a folk club (folk was the indie rock of the day) and Robert Zimmerman came through before he'd changed his name to Bob Dylan. His show was ok. Annette told him, "Kid, you need something to fall back on. Go back to college!" She was fond of recounting her spectacularly wrong moments. (The other was when Leonard Cohen played Suzanne for her and she told him it was dreck and asked him who wrote it.)

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zaidf 16y ago
It would have been more admirable if her mother could walk on one leg.

palish 16y ago

Kesha described herself in an interview as being "very studious" in high school; she would drive to Belmont University to listen in on Cold War history classes after school and achieved "near perfect" SAT scores.[7] However, she dropped out at age seventeen and earned her GED afterward.[9] She left school after being convinced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin to return to Los Angeles to pursue a music career. They had received Kesha's demo after Pebe passed it to Samantha Cox, senior director of writer/publisher relations at BMI, and were impressed. Why would she pass up that kind of opportunity? If it didn't work out, she could always go back to college.

gruseom 16y ago
Ha. A friend of my father-in-law used to be a Montreal hipster. She and her husband ran a folk club (folk was the indie rock of the day) and Robert Zimmerman came through before he'd changed his name to Bob Dylan. His show was ok. Annette told him, "Kid, you need something to fall back on. Go back to college!" She was fond of recounting her spectacularly wrong moments. (The other was when Leonard Cohen played Suzanne for her and she told him it was dreck and asked him who wrote it.)