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As with a lot of things, there is probably not a lot of good generically useful advice here. For example, the advice "do the absolute minimum amount of school work and spend all your time trying to build a startup out of your dorm" is probably terrible advice for 98% of people and great advice for 2%.
I recommend: 1) find a role model who is older than you, but similar in other respects, and whose lifestyle/career/situation seems appealing and 2) imitate his/her college trajectory.
That number seems to be off by orders of magnitude.
The problem is that the world changes. At one point nuclear engineering was an excellent high-potential major.
Spending effort on coding a program for a startup can be useful even if you don't have a successful startup.
I think this is good advice. Although I think a lot of successful people similar to (generic) "you" were also very lucky.