What happens when the Silicon Valley business and innovation model is moved to a regular campus?
In a challenging and stressful job market for young college graduates, who are often heavily indebted, entrepreneurship emerges as a way to be creative and radically transformative, while escaping the monotony of traditional jobs and the instability of low-wage work.Through immersive, engaging, and often humorous narratives and interviews, Victor Tan Chen and Jesse Goldstein explore student life at a public university that has embraced the spirit of entrepreneurship.
These stories show how students embrace, and at the same time resist and challenge, the mindsets taught them in entrepreneurship programs, clinging to hopes for more meaningful opportunities in a world that increasingly seems unwelcome and callous. The Entrepreneurship Trap is a parable of modern capitalism as faced by an anxious new generation.
