Re:Age and high-growth entrepreneurship
by jeffreyrogers on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:08PM
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Makes sense that the high profile founders that started companies when young were largely inventing new industries from scratch. I'm actually struggling to think of a case where that's not true. Stripe kind of fits, but that's arguable.
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All the examples I can think of didn't actually start a new industry.
They did get in early on a new industry, but they didn't start it even if they ended up defining it.
Re:Age and high-growth entrepreneurship
by pessimizer on Sunday January 23, 2022 @08:40PM
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Facebook and Google were latecomers. Facebook just executed better than Friendster and Myspace, and Google had their link-counting gimmick.
Re:Age and high-growth entrepreneurship
by denton-scratch on Monday January 24, 2022 @04:42AM
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> Google had their link-counting gimmick
In the early years, Google was a breath of fresh air; their product (search engine) was miles better than the competition, it looked better, and it wasn't encumbered with ads. That was no gimmick. It's sad, what things have come to.