Re:Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged
by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @12:26AM
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I just went through the first bunch, though, and in person after person you left off a bunch of earlier successful companies that really should give the founders an earlier "start age".
For example, Ev Williams founded Pyra, which was acquired by Google and became Blogger, in 1999, so he would have been 26 or 27 then.
It's odd that you list the age of Jack Dorsey when he started Square, when he was a founder of Twitter years earlier.
Similarly, Elon Musk founded Zip2 in 1995, 4 years before he founded X.com (PayPal). Musk made $22 million when Zip2 was acquired for $307 million by Compaq.
Reed Hastings founded Pure Software in 1991, which went public in 1995, 6 years before NetFlix.
There are many more like this. Lots of these folks had huge successes in their 20s.
For example, Ev Williams founded Pyra, which was acquired by Google and became Blogger, in 1999, so he would have been 26 or 27 then.
It's odd that you list the age of Jack Dorsey when he started Square, when he was a founder of Twitter years earlier.
Similarly, Elon Musk founded Zip2 in 1995, 4 years before he founded X.com (PayPal). Musk made $22 million when Zip2 was acquired for $307 million by Compaq.
Reed Hastings founded Pure Software in 1991, which went public in 1995, 6 years before NetFlix.
There are many more like this. Lots of these folks had huge successes in their 20s.