One of my dreams is to start my own venture someday. How do I tailor my career accordingly?

• Salesforce is almost certainly not a great company to build the skills necessary for a successful startup. It’s too old and too big.
• Fundamentals learned from Big Tech help, but you hit diminishing returns quickly.
• The best way to prepare to found your own startup is to work at startups beforehand (the smaller the better).
• Startups are almost never an engineering problem. Product manager is the role that’s most important for a startup’s success: You need great product direction to achieve product-market fit (PMF).
• You can get a watered down version of startup experience while working a big company job by building side projects.

In addition to Alex's response, I think it could be worth learning a specific domain. For example, I have a large number of friends starting climatetech SaaS/fintech companies- there's a fair amount of domain expertise to learn in addition to everything Alex mentioned.