While many talented graduates walk well-paved paths to traditional industries--finance, consulting, medicine and law--in major cities, other critical American industries located in up and coming cities are starved for talent. That's where we come in.
What We Do
Venture for America will recruit the best and brightest college grads to work for two years at emerging start-ups and early-stage companies in lower-cost cities (e.g., Detroit, Providence, New Orleans). Modeled after Teach for America, Venture for America will provide a path for entrepreneurship to college grads who want to learn how to build companies and create jobs.
The goal is that a substantial proportion of VFA Fellows will become successful entrepreneurs, preferably rooted in the communities to which they are assigned. Venture for America’s purpose is job generation – our immediate goal is to generate 100,000 new U.S. jobs by 2025 by helping growth companies expand and training a critical mass of our top graduates to themselves become business builders and job creators.
The goal is that a substantial proportion of VFA Fellows will become successful entrepreneurs, preferably rooted in the communities to which they are assigned. Venture for America’s purpose is job generation – our immediate goal is to generate 100,000 new U.S. jobs by 2025 by helping growth companies expand and training a critical mass of our top graduates to themselves become business builders and job creators.
Our Founder and CEO Andrew Yang recently spoke at TEDxGeorgetown, where he gave a talk on “Fixing the Flow of Human Capital”.
During his talk, Andrew explains why the flow of talent in the U.S. is one of the fundamental problems we face today, and how VFA seeks to solve it. Check out the video here:
During his talk, Andrew explains why the flow of talent in the U.S. is one of the fundamental problems we face today, and how VFA seeks to solve it. Check out the video here: