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Fortune
Emma Burleigh

Shark Tank's Kevin O’Leary warns Gen Z this job is a slow 'drift into hell' that'll make you unemployable for life

Kevin O'Leary (Credit: Steven Ferdman / Getty Images)
  • Shark Tank multimillionaire Kevin O’Leary says that two-thirds of his Harvard MBA students are “lost souls” who want to go into consulting over entrepreneurship. The Executive Fellow teaching at the Ivy League exclusively tells Fortune that each year, he tries to convince Gen Zers to ditch the path of cushy office jobs and “mediocrity”–or risk being unemployable for life. 

Many business school students coming out of Stanford University, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania are already stepping into their swanky Wall Street jobs. But multimillionaire investor Kevin O’Leary is urging his Harvard students to skip the typical consulting track—and build something of their own instead.

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