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Smart People Should Build Things
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Smart People Should Build Things

How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America

Andrew Yang
HarperBusiness, 2014

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The US needs smart people in the workforce to create jobs. Yet after college, the best graduates seldom join growth firms responsible for most new jobs. They become consultants, financiers, lawyers or physicians – worthy professions that don’t generate employment. Andrew Yang wants top graduates to seek out and join entrepreneurial firms. He explains how his nonprofit organization, Venture for America, helps the best graduates land jobs at growth firms. Yang believes smart kids should help new companies grow so they can hire more smart kids and adults. getAbstract recommends this enthusiastic, unique perspective on career paths to human resource professionals, recent graduates, start-ups and investors who track large-scale business trends.

Take-Aways

  • Many of America’s smartest young people become lawyers, financiers, consultants and specialized physicians instead of joining job-creating, start-up companies.
  • Most top graduates go to work in New York City, Silicon Valley, Boston, Chicago, and Washington, DC, rather than to regions that most need their talents.
  • The level of resources used to recruit graduates largely determines this flow of talent.

About the Author

Andrew Yang, founder and CEO of Venture for America, was named by Fast Company as one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business.”

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