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Startup job creation peaked at 7.9 jobs per 1,000 people in 1997. Today it's 5.3 — a 33% decline — even as startup formation hits record highs. Donna Harris, CEO of Builders + Backers and six-time entrepreneur with multiple exits, joins the show to explain why "more startups = more jobs" is no longer true, and why that might be the signal small-team founders have been waiting for.

Donna breaks down Kauffman Foundation's latest data showing entrepreneurship is broadening while job creation per startup is falling, why people without a high school diploma now start businesses at 2× the rate of college graduates, and how AI is accelerating a shift the ecosystem infrastructure hasn't caught up with. She argues we should o ...