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Why don't you actually read my comment? I said that old people with no achievements aren't going to suddenly become great entrepreneurs. Jimmy Wales - extremel
by python123 17y ago
Why don't you actually read my comment? I said that old people with no achievements aren't going to suddenly become great entrepreneurs.
Jimmy Wales - extremely successful options and futures trader
Steve Jobs - I forget what company he was involved with before NeXT, but I think it was pretty big
Jeff Bezos - one of the top people at D.E. Shaw, right under Shaw himself
John McCarthy - programming languages don't really count as entrepreneurship, but I'm sure you could find many examples of old people creating languages
Marc Benioff - youngest VP in Oracle history
David Winer - I really have no idea what UserLand is
Larry Ellison - ok, fine. I guess if you're trying to make
Oracle, it's ok to be old. I don't mean that as a slight to Oracle, but I don't think Oracle's story applies to web startups.
PG - I didn't say anything about old people not being able to become investors
- spokey 17y agoNow I know you're trolling. Good day.
- python123 17y agoHow on Earth is that trolling? I completely refuted your argument, and you can't respond so you call it trolling. None of those people were 30-year-old career software engineers who had achieved nothing and dreamed of entrepreneurship. They were all already successful. And I know Hacker News is mostly that type of person, but you people need a reality check. You can downvote all you want, but it won't change anything. I bet you really wish it could because forums like this are probably all you have left. You're going to wake up tomorrow and do what you're doing. I'm going to wake up tomorrow and do what you dream of doing.