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Preston Fore

Google CEO tells graduates to stop obsessing over first jobs because ‘very few moments are make or break’ in life—a lesson he learned in Vegas

Sundar Pichai (Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

There’s a lot weighing on Gen Z these days: landing a first job, navigating an AI-powered workplace, and figuring out whether traditional milestones like homeownership are still within reach. But instead of trying to come up with solutions to endless anxiety-inducing problems, Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently offered a simple antidote to the workforce’s youngest members: take a chill pill.

“I’m going to let you in on a little secret: While these things matter in the moment, they are much less consequential than you might think,” Pichai told Stanford University graduates earlier this month.

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