Stewart Butterfield:

The title of the talk was somewhat tongue-in-cheek: ‘How to make a fortune in applied philosophy and other uses of your humanities degree’,” he quipped. “But the message was that entrepreneurism is a good avenue for exercising the kinds of things you learn with a humanities degree.”

Butterfield said the message he wanted to leave the students with was to be ambitious and open to all kinds of opportunities.

“I think if you have a good background in what it is to be human, an understanding of life, culture and society, it gives you a good perspective on starting a business, instead of an education purely in business,” he said. “You can always pick up how to read a balance sheet and how to figure out profit and loss, but it’s harder to pick up the other stuff on the fly.”

(via Sci-fi Hi-fi)