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Any advice or observations regarding doing one's first startup in one's 30's and up?

• sama 11y ago
  Bezos did it, I believe.
  • w1ntermute 11y ago
    Not necessarily their first startups, but: Dre (Beats), Larry Ellison, Travis Kalanick, Phil Knight (Nike), Jack Ma (Alibaba), Sam Walton, Wang Jianlin (Dalian Wanda). Mike Bloomberg and Amancio Ortega (Zara) were nearly 40.
    • jedberg 11y ago
      I find it interesting which people you chose to label with their company and which you didn't.
      • w1ntermute 11y ago
        I thought about that quite a bit as well while writing the comment. Since HN is US- and tech-centric, I added the company name for non-tech or non-US companies. Walton was an exception because everyone knows Walton/Walmart, Bloomberg was an exception because the company's named after himself (and it is technically in technology), and Dre was an exception because (a) most people know him for his music, not Beats and (b) it's more of a fashion company than a technology company. I was on the fence with Ellison/Oracle, given how old the company is.
  • snoman 11y ago
    To save anyone else the lookup: Bezos was born in '64 and Amazon was founded in '94.