It's an intense environment. It's a fun environment. If you're a young person, you have a lot of opportunity to contribute and to take ownership in a lot of different things. It's a new industry, so you can re-create and reinvent every day. Companies benefit from UpStart 101 too, Gutierrez says.
Human capital is something everyone wants.
Right now, there's a big inequity between the supply of demand and labor. Startup of a startup Gutierrez got the idea for this employer-student matchmaking service during his senior year at Yale University, from which he graduated with a degree in economics. He had completed a couple of summer internships with J.P. Morgan and one with Merrill Lynch, later receiving and declining a full-time job offer from Goldman Sachs. My senior year I had this revelation that I didn't want to work for one of those big companies. I wanted to work for a startup.