how to spawn and nurture gazelles is what they study in job creation, the greatest gazelle is google, a gazelle is a company that grows rapidly, double digit growth usually for four years in a row and many like google don t stay small companies. gazelles will lead ug on the road to recovery because as jenna noted the small business administration tells us, small businesses account for two-thirds of all jobs in america and increasingly among small businesses startups are where the action is and economists with the sba estimate that between 1997-2008, startups created an average of 3.5 million jobs per year. the problem is, as jenna noted, gazelles only account for 5 percent of all garthups. the secret is to find and feed these gazelles. but they have no particular habitat. these gazelles are found in all regions and industries, so we hunted one down, michael orkner, ceo of