1. The article states:
... and found that most were white, male, and highly
educated. “If one does not have money in the form of a
family with money, the chances of becoming an
entrepreneur drop quite a bit,” Levine tells Quartz.
2. The article doesn't reflect on the what exactly entrepreneurship is. One could argue that poor people in the developing world are much more entrepreneurial because most of them are in some form or other self-employed, ie. are entrepreneurs: the cigarette and waterbottle seller on the street corner, the coconut seller on the beach, the fisherman fishing with his own boat and net, the garbage picker who sells empty plastic bottles by the kilo for recyling ... They often are not employed. In a sense it's poverty that forces them into Entrepreneurship. It's the absence of large structured firms with the stability of employment that provide that's missing. By cherrypicking specific forms of glamorous entrepreneurs, they arrive at a skewed conclusion that more careful analysis would undermine.