Oct 28, 2025 · 1 hr 16 min · 15 segments
Description Casey Handmer is the founder of Terraform Industries, who is developing a machine that makes synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. He joins the podcast to explain his solar…
Casey HandmerGuest
John CollisonHost
What advice do you have for highly technical youngsters, say, you know, someone who's in college listening to this?
But realize that your life is on a spectrum, like a continuum, and certain things are easy now and they'll be hard later and vice versa.
And if you see yourself as someone who's the technological elite, you should challenge yourself as much as you can.
You've only got 40 something years of really good work ahead to level up as much as you can.
You wanna go and work with the best people on the things that you care about, whoever they are, wherever they are, whatever it takes.
On the other hand, if you've recently graduated or you're about to graduate, It's more important that you get a job and you kill it, do really, really well straight out of school than that you sit on the job market for a year and then compete against the next one.
I see a lot of resumes, no doubt you've seen a lot of resumes over the years and really you're only as good as your most recent job.
And if your first job out of school is super important to like set the foundation upon which you can build the rest of your career, even if it sucks, stick it out for 18 months to two years and make sure everyone there has something nice to say about you.
But yeah, it's really sad when you see someone, you know, ostensibly decent degree out of decent school and they kind of fail to launch in some way.
What advice do you have for highly technical youngsters, say, you know, someone who's in college listening to this?
But realize that your life is on a spectrum, like a continuum, and certain things are easy now and they'll be hard later and vice versa.
And if you see yourself as someone who's the technological elite, you should challenge yourself as much as you can.
You've only got 40 something years of really good work ahead to level up as much as you can.
You wanna go and work with the best people on the things that you care about, whoever they are, wherever they are, whatever it takes.
On the other hand, if you've recently graduated or you're about to graduate, It's more important that you get a job and you kill it, do really, really well straight out of school than that you sit on the job market for a year and then compete against the next one.
I see a lot of resumes, no doubt you've seen a lot of resumes over the years and really you're only as good as your most recent job.
And if your first job out of school is super important to like set the foundation upon which you can build the rest of your career, even if it sucks, stick it out for 18 months to two years and make sure everyone there has something nice to say about you.
But yeah, it's really sad when you see someone, you know, ostensibly decent degree out of decent school and they kind of fail to launch in some way.
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