Smart People Should Build Things
How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America
Yang's first book, on steering talented graduates away from finance and consulting and toward building companies, especially outside the coastal hubs.
Yang’s first book, drawn from founding Venture for America. He argues that too many of the country’s most talented graduates are funneled into a narrow set of prestige careers, finance, consulting, law, that mostly move money around, when the country badly needs them building companies that create jobs, especially in cities away from the coasts. Part diagnosis of a talent-allocation problem, part call to steer ambition toward making things.
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