When I give advice to smart kids entering college I tell them they should strongly consider targeting PE/HF: If they hate it they will know from experience and

When I give advice to smart kids entering college I tell them they should strongly consider targeting PE/HF: If they hate it they will know from experience and still have superlative exit ops, trivially able to land a management/executive-track job at a tech company or elsewhere. This is not a comment on what you're saying (I don't think you're far off) but it's pretty disturbing a reflection on tech that executive roles in our companies are what finance people fail into. Most tech management and VC is failed finance/business guys who failed down into those roles, not programmers who worked their way up the ranks. The latter almost never happens, to tell the truth.