So where are Gen Z's tech founders?
Gen Z founders and would-be founders are stepping into a vastly different tech world from that of their predecessors — a world where launching a unicorn is far more difficult, and publicly scrutinized, than it was for the garage-band generation of Jobs and Gates.
Gen Z is coming of age in an era when the same Big Tech companies are diffuse and dominant.
In other words, millennial founders ran so that Gen Z founders could walk.
Perhaps we won't see Gen Z founders standing before a crowd and unveiling their latest shiny products anytime soon.
Persons:
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Gen X, Sergey Brin, Elon Musk, Travis Kalanick, Peter Thiel, Millennials, I'm, Zuckerberg, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Brian Chesky, Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman, Gen, aren't, Zers, Jerry Neumann, millennials, Uber, Z, There's, Neumann, Kimberly Eddleston, they've, Adam Neumann, Holmes, Alexandra Debow, that's, Alexandr Wang, Wang, They've, Ibrahim Rashid, Rashid didn't, COVID, Rashid, Martin Shkreli, Forbes, Alexis Barreyat, Barreyat, Julian Kage, Kage, they'd, Debow, It's, Eddleston, Emma Chamberlain's
Organizations:
Boomers, Columbia University, Big Tech, Northeastern University, Facebook, New York University, MIT, Wired, Forbes, University of Chicago, Deloitte, Harvard, Harvard Business
Locations:
swaggering, Silicon Valley