First of all, best of luck for your career. I'm not going to comment on working with giants as I didn't do it before, but I am going to comment on making a sta

First of all, best of luck for your career. I'm not going to comment on working with giants as I didn't do it before, but I am going to comment on making a startup as I did it 2 times before. To make a successful startup, its never about the product .. rather its how to sell what you have. So all along with the coming 5 years (which is a very good time bound), you need to have basic understanding about marketing, sales, how to pursue and how to manage a team. Basically, one day you'll not be a developer/SW engineer, you'll be a business owner. I can recommend some books to start with. P.S. 1. You're at best age to set long terms SMART objectives. 2. With startup, there is no life-work balance .. you'll forget your life :) Regards