Smart People Should Build Things, Andrew Yang
Smart People Should Build Things, Andrew Yang
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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

Author: Andrew Yang

Narrator: Tim Paige

Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/17/2019

Synopsis

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.

About Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang is the founder and CEO of Venture for America, a major nonprofit that 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 has been the CEO, cofounder, or executive at a number of technology and education companies. Yang was named a Presidential Ambassador of Global Entrepreneurship and a Champion of Change by the White House and one of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business." He was also named to the National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Department of Commerce. A major documentary with an Oscar-winning director, Generation Startup, featuring Yang and Venture for America, was released in Fall 2016 and is available on Netflix and other streaming platforms. He is a graduate of Columbia Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review, James Kent Scholar, and winner of the Class of 1912 Prize, and Brown University, where he graduated with degrees in economics and political science.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trey

Basic message: high-achievers don't have to go to grad school and proceed to work as investment bankers. They can, and "should," take a risk and build a business instead. The paradigm shift Andrew Yang seeks is a good one. College students are presented with too few options, and have been told to get......more

Goodreads review by James

This should be mandatory reading for all college freshman - and graduates. We need more builders!......more

Goodreads review by Payne

Yang gives a clear and simple thesis that every college student/ recent graduate should hear and consider. He argues that the current education system almost directly guides ambitious college graduates into professional services jobs (investment banking, management consulting, law), and that much of......more

Goodreads review by Sam

Yang, by the time he was 30, had successively obtained an Ivy League law degree, worked as a high-end corporate attorney, launched a failing-dot.com enterprise, Stargiving, and then started an educational testing company that went big time—Manhattan GMAT—that made him a millionaire. Along the way, h......more

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