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Being successful and being famous are two completely different things only tangentially related. The 30 companies that have famous founders are far outweighed
by themagician 8y ago
Being successful and being famous are two completely different things only tangentially related.
The 30 companies that have famous founders are far outweighed by the ten thousand that you don't know of. On more than one occasion I’ve found myself working for absolutely massive companies (public in many cases) that I’d never previously even heard of. I’ve definitely had a lot of those, “Holy shit, how is this the biggest company I’ve never heard of,” experiences. There are a lot of companies in finance, telecom, and infrastructure that you don’t think about because they don’t have an app that sits on your home screen.
- rhizome 8y agoAs an example, I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as a third-party solution developer for Salesforce who is famous like this, but you can bet a lot of them are making good money. They probably skew older, too.
- ericd 8y agoYep, younger founders skew heavily toward consumer apps, partly because it's what they know. And those are much more likely to be well known by the general public.