Research Shows Average Age of Successful Founders Is Older Than You Think

Posted by markhall on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @12:48PM
from the forbes.com dept.

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Re:Research Shows Average Age of Successful Founders Is Olde... by nakedrobot2 on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:29PM (#18231295)

Ageism in tech is so insane.

At a conference, meeting the other speakers. They learn that I have children, and sort of back away in horror :-)

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Re:Research Shows Average Age of Successful Founders Is Olde... by beatgammit on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:34PM (#18231351)

Here's the actual article from Harvard Business Review:

The graphs there are quite telling.

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Re:Research Shows Average Age of Successful Founders Is Olde... by kv85s on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @02:05PM (#18231633)

Key being the word "successful":

- learned things at their previous founding attempt/s

- serial entrepreneurs probably have their act together

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Re:Research Shows Average Age of Successful Founders Is Olde... by schneems on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @12:54PM (#18230940)

I think it's about 40.

checks link

Looks like they were right.

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