This is certainly interesting. I think the more tailored view is that there are many people who have the necessary risk threshold, creativity, and ambition to u

This is certainly interesting. I think the more tailored view is that there are many people who have the necessary risk threshold, creativity, and ambition to undergo the challenge of working at or running a start-up. However, for everyone else, including brilliant people seeking greater financial security working at a large company can have many benefits. Also, large companies like Google can give their employees freedom of action (20% of their time in fact), as well as the resources to actually see their ideas put in action.