Advice to convert new grad into a million dollar worth resource?

I see many people in the industry stand out because of their abilities. One of the examples being Adam D Angelo who built a music player at a young age and then helped Zuckerberg as the CEO and has now founded Quora. I would like to know key points everyone has to share to convert a new young computer science grad into such useful resource considering he still has lots of time to learn new things.