follow big daugs, join big leagues; the ultimate mentors for me by relevance: thiel, demis, dario, elon.
rule of 10 in the connection game
1 degree connection's success rate is 10%
2 degree connection's success rate is 10% x 10%, or 1%.
literally don't build startups. everything is hard and you will fail. unless you truely want to reduce risk to 5% from 95%, you need to verify with ideally someone like demis himself. if he says yes and wants to help, great; if not, work for companies like isomorphic with prophet-level engineers (eg demis).
all VCs' eyes on AI, so bio will be neglected (not sure how true this is given the stock recovery recently in biopharma)
no one actively working in academia are relatable. you have to find ppl in the industry.
keep networking, let your luck compound. eventually you will enter the big leagues.