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This is an opinion article. No sources made for the claims in the article what-so-ever. I was in Techstars. There were some founders who came from prominent fa
by balls187 9y ago
This is an opinion article. No sources made for the claims in the article what-so-ever.
I was in Techstars. There were some founders who came from prominent families, but there were others from the working class.
- teekno 9y ago> "This is an opinion article" > provides anecdote as counterevidence
- jnbiche 9y agoHere's a paper that says the exact same thing (that most entrepreneurs come from wealth), but with much more data: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19276.pdf http://www.nber.org/papers/w19276.pdf
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- CobrastanJorji 9y agoit seems like your evidence, that of a small sample of entrepreneurs, you ran into multiple youth from prominent families, suggests that rich kids are at least substantially over-represented, although most likely not 100% of entrepreneurs.
- balls187 9y agoNone of the "youth" (two) were rich-kids. Most however, had significant education and work experience (MIT, Stanford, Amazon, Google, MSFT).