The ability to invent has NOTHING to do with age. Steve Wozniak was a genius at electronics. He had more "experience" in electronics than anyone else 20 years

The ability to invent has NOTHING to do with age. Steve Wozniak was a genius at electronics. He had more "experience" in electronics than anyone else 20 years older than him. He succeeded because he had the motivation to build something and the knowledge to execute it. The same is true for every example that he cited. The inventors, in each case, had much more "experience", within those fields, than anyone else. They used this to create something new. The younger you are (ie no family), the more time you have to tinker with things. And I think this plays a big role. You can rattle of hundreds of counter examples: Oprah, JK Rowling, Mark Pincus ...