The everyone in the title is clear hyperbole, but obviously one meant to convey most or maybe even very nearly all. That's probably a belief held by TechCrunch

The everyone in the title is clear hyperbole, but obviously one meant to convey most or maybe even very nearly all. That's probably a belief held by TechCrunch writers and Startup School attendees but most likely far from realistic. My previous job was at a small nonprofit and we worked in a large co-working space that had hundreds of startups[1]. Many of the people I had conversations with (or overheard) in the kitchen/common-areas were heavy into the startup-scene (serial-founders or engineers who would only work at startups). I'm now at a large tech company and not one of my co-workers has ever expressed interest in founding a startup (or even working for one). This is probably because startups tend to attract people who want to work for a startup and larger companies tend to attract those that would rather not. If startups feel they are having a harder problem filling vacancies than large companies maybe that's a sign that talent pool is larger and they should ask what they can do to appeal more to that crowd, instead of what they could do to get potential founders to work for them instead of founding their own. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Innovation_Center http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Innovation_Center