Most are selling hours or expressing the intent to, as reflected in the articles data. If your are damn good, they sell themselves. If you’re not, you are going to regret transferring the risk of landing and retaining customers onto yourself from an employer.
What I’m most interested in is what proportion are working to create a business that scales up. IP creators, manufacturers, service businesses, products. Those are the job creation machines that our entire economy will benefit from.
Given the past year's move towards remote work and knowledge workers migrating away from big cities, I'd be very interested in how "scalable businesses" adapt. Not every emerging need can be met by a remote-only companies, cool things are going to happen when these trends collide (smaller cities becoming entrepreneurial hotspots, lean companies that attend to more niche markets, unique managerial agreements, etc.)
What I’m most interested in is what proportion are working to create a business that scales up. IP creators, manufacturers, service businesses, products. Those are the job creation machines that our entire economy will benefit from.