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When Jay Kamath first hit the job market with his newly earned architecture degree in 2005, the advice he received from those in the field wasn’t exactly encouraging.

“A lot of architects I was meeting were saying, verbatim, ‘Don’t become an architect,'” Kamath said. “So I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a red flag.'”

Luckily, Kamath had already begun to discover that his interests lied elsewhere. While he still credits his undergraduate education for immersing him in the world of design, he had simultaneously developed an overlapping side passion for computer graphics, where he felt he might have more of an opportunity to mold projects in his own vision.

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This story first appeared in the October 22, 2018, issue of Adweek magazine. Click here to subscribe.