Insightful article, but the tl;dr is:

"The highest quality entrepreneurship is heavily concentrated in a select few metros on the East and West Coasts."

ahahhaha agreed with you, And it is a fact because it is in line with many factors ranging from the state to society , culture personality mindset

Is there a reason to prefer "the next big thing" high growth companies over incremental growth companies? With incremental growth new workers can predict what industries to get into as they enter uni whereas if you have high growth companies, the lucky kids will experience demand and the other kids will feel left behind as they chose a major which ended up not having as much demand because it's difficult to predict demand (ahead of time) when you have high growth.