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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

by Andrew Yang
Tim Paige
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Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, offers a unique solution to our country's economic and social problems—our smart people should be building things. Smart People Should Build Things offers a stark picture of the current culture and a revolutionary model that will redirect a generation of ambitious young people to the critical job of innovating and building new businesses.
As the Founder and CEO of Venture for America, Andrew Yang places top college graduates in start-ups for two years in emerging US cities to generate job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs. He knows firsthand how our current view of education is broken. Many college graduates aspire to finance, consulting, law school, grad school, or medical school out of a vague desire for additional status and progress rather than from a genuine passion or fit.
In Smart People Should Build Things, this self-described "recovering lawyer" and entrepreneur weaves together a compelling narrative of success stories (including his own), offering observations about the flow of talent in the United States and explanations of why current trends are leading to economic distress and cultural decline. He also presents recommendations for both policy makers and job seekers to make entrepreneurship more realistic and achievable.

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  • Release date

    December 17, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781977367440
      • File size: 178975 KB
      • Duration: 06:12:51

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 25, 2013
      Entrepreneur and “recovering lawyer” Yang is the founder and CEO of Venture for America, a nonprofit that seeks to match top graduates with startups and other high-growth companies. Yang suggests that many young people graduate from college and seek jobs in finance, law, and medicine because it’s expected of them. The downside is that many of these promising young people hit their mid-20s with tons of student debt, and realize they’ve been trained very narrowly, in addition to not enjoying their jobs. How much could the world be changed if these young and energetic people went to startups, rather than going corporate? Yang’s pitch for entrepreneurship as a viable alternative to more structured careers is enticing, but readers will get the book’s points after the first 10 pages. Overall the book, which contains far too much of Yang’s own story, reads like an advertisement for Venture for America. A few half-hearted tips only serve to throw the overall weak presentation into stark relief. Agent: Byrd Leavell, Waxman Leavell Literary.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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