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Zero Cost Pushes Students To Startups

“Even freshmen and sophomores now are just like just trying to create their own businesses... they're just afraid that there's not a job waiting for them when they graduate.”

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And one thing that we learned was is like even freshmen and sophomores now are just like just trying to create their own businesses. Partly because the cost of building is zero now that's in many different fronts, but also because they were

openly saying this, they're just afraid that there's not a job waiting for them when they graduate. Yep. So I feel like this shift is going to be massive. We're almost at an all time peak again for the number of some of businesses that are created in a single month. We're almost at

an all time peak right now. The last time we were at that was back in COVID. And so I do really think like this is a phenomenon where people are increasingly starting their own company in order to counteract against some of this. I think

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