That's a lot of SV-speak. How exactly do people step into an entrepreneurial phase? They're at work in corporate settings with fixed defined roles. Most workplaces are not many-hatted-donning startup environments, but restricted roles where there are deliverables, deadlines, meetings, etc. Which leaves out of hours for "entrepreneurship" whatever that is.
Github project work on the weekends? That's not possible for most people in their mature/family years (or shouldn't be necessary - what about living life??)
>That's a lot of SV-speak. How exactly do people step into an entrepreneurial phase?
Almost half of U.S. employment is from small businesses (250 or less employees). That's means there's a lot of entrepreneurship happening already. I have lots of family running their own small businesses (trades), and it's a lot of work, and doesn't necessarily pay as well as a cushy corporate job, but what I'm trying to say is lots of people can and do start their own enterprise.
Yes, lots of them will fail at running their own business, but it's not like corporate jobs are getting any safer either.
And what ARE those businesses? There's delis everywhere, should I open up a 24/7 bodega? Start selling knives I learn to forge on the Internet and make YouTube videos about knife making? That's going to replace our financial commitments will it?
Here's another problem - how do you get healthcare without a corporate group plan? In my state the ACA offers expensive in-network only plans where you wait months for appointments.
> That's a lot of SV-speak. How exactly do people step into an entrepreneurial phase?
Oh, you simply decide to use grit and willpower to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, placing some calls to people you met at certain parties aided by a small 6 digit loan from your family. /s
My default expectation of "employees should be more entrepreneurial" is that's it's a kind of victim-blaming. I'm especially cynical if the concept seems is getting introduced by groups that spent the last several decades putting up barriers to entry, drafting non-compete contracts, capturing regulators, and basically pulling up the ladders behind them.
It's comfort (for the already made men) for the possibility of a dystopic economy where tech jobs become very rare. A scenario which could play out as we compete harder with each other for the pickings.
Github project work on the weekends? That's not possible for most people in their mature/family years (or shouldn't be necessary - what about living life??)