Which is the easiest path to a wealthy startup tech company or high finance?
Cant answer tech questions, not my field. Forget who I met on here that was in tech deep.
High finance is kind of vague, not sure exactly which areas you mean.
Will go with the hedge fund route. Need to start young, right out of university. Those internships at banks are amazing from various universities. They are constantly looking for talented people. This could apply to other fields like mergers and acquisitions though.
This is for traders. The longer way is dying fast but can to go work for a shop trading accounts. Build your book( list of clients) and eventually take that book and run your shop.
Also, add in networking your butt off, go to every lunch whenever you can.
Yeah, it's a bit of vague advice. The real question is do you want that kind of life. That is high hours a week for a good portion of your life. Also, the pressure is insane, breaks people easily. Took a chunk out of me. Also going to have to become a bookworm. A ridiculous amount of info about there in books. Many people enter and many people get chewed out.
I will say this though the area is deeply understaffed. The talent search is always ongoing. Just not enough people either going into it or just not enough people that can do it.