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While there is some decent leadership advice in this article, I can't help but to wonder: all these articles seem to focus on personal leadership qualities, doe
by throwaway2016a 4y ago
While there is some decent leadership advice in this article, I can't help but to wonder: all these articles seem to focus on personal leadership qualities, does anyone recommend good articles that focus on other things like socioeconomic status, college/degree level, age, etc? It seems intuitive that @$$hole founders fail, but all things considered equal I intuition also tells me these other factors are equality if not more impactful.
Edit: Couple minor typos.
- dc-programmer 4y agoThere were some articles over the last few years about successful founders skewing older. Looks like the average age for billion dollar companies is 34 but I remember seeing over 40 for some thresholds. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/05/27/super-founders-median-age-of-billion-startup-founders-over-15-years.html https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/05/27/super-founders-median-ag...
- tinco 4y agoI really liked the book "Super Founders" by Ali Tamaseb. It has the information you're looking for at least, as well as a lot of other interesting stuff. Most significant property of billion dollar startup founders is that they're more likely to have founded a multi million dollar startup before. That doesn't necessarily mean that they're super talented, but more that they've got the good qualities as well as the required experience. Anyway the book has loads of great insights.
- Joel_Mckay 4y agoThis book explains all: https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/1610391845 https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...