Hewlett and Packard fit this pattern. Arguably Robert Noyce also. You can't really do stats on outliers without binning stuff into a histogram. The 5 sigma ent

Hewlett and Packard fit this pattern. Arguably Robert Noyce also. You can't really do stats on outliers without binning stuff into a histogram. The 5 sigma entrepreneurs were probably young just out of survivor bias. The guy who cofounds Fairchild semiconductor and gives it his name (Sherman Fairchild) doesn't count as the world's greatest semiconductor entrepreneur because he died significantly before his cofounders did.