A very eloquent answer from Adam D'Angelo, the young man who started Quora.
Why do you think our generation has so many entrepreneurs? Were we just raised to think that way?
There’s been a lot of change in the world that makes it easier to start a company now than it used to be.
I’ll compare what it’s been like starting Quora, to what it was like
at Facebook in the early days. Facebook had to have a full-time guy
managing their data center. We would drive down to Santa Clara to set up
new servers, buy them, and then wait weeks before they would get [to
Facebook's’ headquarters].
Now we use Amazon Web services. It
takes a few minutes to write a script and then we can turn on 20 new
servers if we need them. And we don’t have to drive anywhere, it’s just
an engineer in our office just running some code that he wrote, and it
will set up the whole data center basically. So that’s just one example
of how it’s just so much easier now than it used to be.
And you
know, you can do so much more the on the Web than you used to be able
to. You used to have to get people to download software. Now all you
have to do its type in a Web address. And there are things like Y
Combinator and more angel investors, so there are easier sources of
funding.
Even in 2004, there weren’t that many sources of information about how to start a company, so it was much more difficult.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-i-learned-from-being-cto-of-facebook-why-i-started-quora-and-this-is-why-gen-y-kicks-ass-at-entrepreneurship-2010-9#ixzz0zWuvL2hk