I dont quite understand if the article was to convince me about something or was it to predict the future? "An ambitious kid graduating from college now doesn'

I dont quite understand if the article was to convince me about something or was it to predict the future? "An ambitious kid graduating from college now doesn't want to work for a big company. They want to work for the hot startup that's rapidly growing into one." Thats a generalization and I believe its untrue and biased towards talented, ambitious young people Paul meets. Sorry if I'm wrong, but if that was to convince me, I'd need a proof. From my point of view, the rest of the world is still at sort of peak of belief in the "corporate world" (but I dont have any research doc to reference as well :)). "Fifty years later, startups are ubiquitous in Silicon Valley and common in a handful of other US cities, but they're still an anomaly in most of the world." Well thats what I dont understand the most. If the whole article talks about the huge positive impact that startups are going to have on economy, let me ask Paul: what has changed since then ("fifty years [ago]") that makes you believe that NOW is the moment startups are going to change the whole world so much? What was the reason you wrote (published) the article NOW?