Braley: Young Entrepreneurs Are ‘Sitting Around,’ ‘Drinking Beer’

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Democrat Bruce Braley of Iowa says today’s young entrepreneurs differ from his generation’s because they “[sit] around in a large space with white boards.” The U.S. Senate candidate said these “Millennial” start-up companies in Iowa sometimes think of ideas that go “nowhere.”

“When I go to start-up companies in Iowa, I do not see what I saw when I walked into factories in Iowa 20 years ago,” said Braley to a group of Iowa manufacturers Thursday. “I see people sitting around in a large space with white boards. It may be 3 o’clock in the afternoon and they’re drinking beer and brainstorming. And coming up with lots of ideas, some of which are going nowhere.” Listen to the audio below:

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