Name: ミレニアルズとビジネス：6分間英語 (Millennials and business: 6 Minute English)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T11:06:11.000Z
Duration: 6 min 38 s
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Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning

Would you like to start you own business?

It sounds good, Rob. I like the idea of being

Well, that's the dream for many millennials

- the name given to the current generation

Some of the millennial generation are dissatisfied

with the old ways of doing things, for example

how big business uses data from social media

and the negative impact of companies on society

millennials are so attracted to starting their

own businesses and asking whether this really

is the way to make the world a better place.

And of course, we'll be learning some new

is hardly a millennial but he's a hero to

many young business people. In 2006 he won

the Nobel Peace Prize, but what for? Was it for:

a) offering microfinance to low-income businesses,

b) starting the first business to earn £1m

c) developing a progressive model of taxation.

Hmmm, I know millennials like starting businesses

so I'll say, b) earning £1 million in under

right. Now, whether it's TV shows like 'The

Apprentice' or the big success of companies

decade saw a huge growth in 20 and 30-year-olds

starting their own businesses. BBC World Service

Ethan Mollick to explain how this situation

built entrepreneureal ventures much more easily.

The growth of things like crowdfunding have

helped make entrepreneurship more accessible,

a lot of new methods for launching businesses

and the cost of launching new businesses dropped

someone who starts their own business, often

Entrepreneurs see opportunities for products

and services not being supplied by existing

companies, so they create start-ups - newly

formed businesses intended to grow rapidly

by providing for a particular market gap.

One of the main problems to starting up your

own business used to be getting the large

amounts of money needed, but nowadays this

can be solved with crowdfunding - getting

the funding for a new business by asking a

large number of people to give small amounts

But while start-up success stories have made

going into business a good option, for many

millennials it's not just about making money

but also about being socially responsible

and doing good. However, others argue that

most big changes for the better have come

from governments not millennial businesses.

Here, former World Bank economist, Charles

Kenny, cautions against over-emphasising individual

If you are working in a place with a corrupt

and inefficient government, one of the best

ways you can push development in your country

is to try and make that problem a little bit

individual can do, it has to be a collective

effort, but the more we have young, committed,

smart people who want to make the world a

better place working in government, the more

likely government is to start delivering the

kind of services we need in order to ensure

ways, often in return for money or power.

The talent and passion that millennials put

into starting their own business could instead

be used to improve governments through collective

effort - a group of people acting together

It's this working together than can raise