Meta Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has great advice for young people; he encourages you to focus more on building relationships than being ‘objective focused’ on such things as wealth, career or a big house

Recently, Zuckerberg said that his initial ability to launch Facebook back in 2004 wasn’t because he dropped out of college or abandoned any of his other interests. Rather, the Meta CEO said, it was due to the personal connections he made and relationships he formed while he was still in school.

Who you spend time with in college, Zuckerberg said, is “the most important decision” any student can make on campus. “You become the people you surround yourself with,” he explained. “I think probably people are too, in general, objective focused, and maybe not focused enough on the connections and the people who they’re basically building relationships [with].”

Zuckerberg said that he still tries to prioritize relationships over objectives today. That applies especially when hiring at Meta, he said: When evaluating a job candidate, he imagines what it would be like to work for that person, instead of being their boss.

“I will only hire someone to work for me if I could see myself working for them,” he said.

Zuckerberg believes that If you befriend or work with people who share your values on a human level, you’ll be more likely to smoothly achieve your personal or work goals together.

It’s all about finding personal compatibility, he said, not unlike “choosing friends or a partner.”