Re:Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s
by sobes on Sunday February 16, 2014 @03:00PM
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Seems to be corroborated in tech by some nice examples:
Jimmy Wales: founded Wikipedia at 35 and Wikia at 38;
Marc Benioff: started Salesforce at 35;
Mark Pincus: started Zynga at 41;
Reid Hoffman: founded Linkedin at 36;
Robert Noyce: started Intel at 41 with a 39 year old Gordon Moore;
Irwin Jacobs was 52 and Andrew Viterbi was 50 when they founded Qualcomm;
Pradeep Sindhu: founded Juniper Networks at 42;
Tim Westergren: started Pandora at 35;
Robin Chase: founded Zipcar at 42;
Michael Arrington: started TechCrunch at 35;
Om Malik: started GigaOm at 39;
Reed Hastings: started Netflix at 37;
Craig Newmark: started craigslist at 42
... and the list goes on and on. check out this Quora post (source of the above) for more interesting examples: http://qr.ae/tG78W
Jimmy Wales: founded Wikipedia at 35 and Wikia at 38; Marc Benioff: started Salesforce at 35; Mark Pincus: started Zynga at 41; Reid Hoffman: founded Linkedin at 36; Robert Noyce: started Intel at 41 with a 39 year old Gordon Moore; Irwin Jacobs was 52 and Andrew Viterbi was 50 when they founded Qualcomm; Pradeep Sindhu: founded Juniper Networks at 42; Tim Westergren: started Pandora at 35; Robin Chase: founded Zipcar at 42; Michael Arrington: started TechCrunch at 35; Om Malik: started GigaOm at 39; Reed Hastings: started Netflix at 37; Craig Newmark: started craigslist at 42
... and the list goes on and on. check out this Quora post (source of the above) for more interesting examples: http://qr.ae/tG78W