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This Week in Startups · 2025-11-10 · 65 min · 12,772 words

IPO Mania hits the TWiST 500! Three companies are ready to go public | E2206

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If you can't get a job and you can make half the amount of money or double the amount of money or any of those numbers in between working for yourself and having a small mom and pop business, you're going to do it. People used to do it, they're going to be doing it again, not out of a function of wanting to necessarily, but as a function of needing to. I think it's going to be a situation where we're already seeing with college graduates, they don't have jobs. So what are they going to do?

They're going to start companies. They're going to try to find a product or service they can provide to other companies, to consumers, and put out a shingle and try to get money for a product or a service from individuals. And it's going to be um every person for themselves. It's going to take a lot of self-reliance and rugged individual as I predict when this transition occurs and the transition is occurring.

And it's creating a low anxiety in the country. It's creating a low anxiety in households where people are like, I kind of feel like my job's going away. I kind of feel like my cousin's job is going away. I wonder how long I'll even have this job. And the managers are saying, I wonder how long I'm going to have my job.

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