design majors > business majors.
- Hobby Company
- Mar 4
- 2 min read
i never really knew what i was good at.
bang-on average student in high school.
bang-on average student in university.
it wasn’t until my fourth year at uni that i found my passion for architecture.
that’s when i really started to develop in-depth thinking.
why certain buildings were designed in certain ways.
what effect they had on the people inside.
in architecture school, 'critiques' were a regular thing.
it's a weekly session where you’d present your ideas to professors and students.
what made critiques interesting were the questions.
questions that pushed critical thinking.
what does your design mean?
how does it solve problems for the client?
how does it meet the client’s brief?
why is that design important?
startups are similar.
building from scratch for people.
what problem is it solving for the user?
how does it solve the user’s problem?
why is it important to solve this problem?
there are also a lot of transferable skills.
critical thinking (solving problems for users)
photoshop skills (used for pitch decks, wireframes, designs)
presentation skills (pitching to investors)
i think it probably saves you 12-16 months of work.
doing 5 years of architecture was like pre-school for startups.
architects and founders are both makers.
like paul graham said in 'hackers and painters' - link
"what hackers and painters have in common is that they're both makers. along with composers, architects, and writers, what hackers and painters are trying to do is make good things."
"..hackers, who are trying to write interesting software, and for whom computers are just a medium of expression, as concrete is for architects or paint for painters. it's as if mathematicians, physicists, and architects all had to be in the same department."
idk, just feels like these skills helped me secure my first $2m from investors.
design majors, try startups.
you’ll struggle way less than business majors.
just my opinion.
(dalle - design major > business major)
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