He started the major in 2007. In my experience, CS only started being a famously lucrative major around ~2016. Before then, parents especially weren't up to dat

He started the major in 2007. In my experience, CS only started being a famously lucrative major around ~2016. Before then, parents especially weren't up to date and still considered medicine and law to be the good careers. And of course, after reading the article: 'When Hashimoto went to college, his dad told him he had one year to pursue "that computer thing." "If I couldn’t prove to him in a year it was useful in some way, I either had to pay for college myself or become a lawyer or doctor," Hashimoto says.'