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Old hackers still wish they could just program. The difference between old and young is that the old are more likely to know they can't have what they wish for
by pg 15y ago
Old hackers still wish they could just program. The difference between old and young is that the old are more likely to know they can't have what they wish for in that respect.
The research you quote is about moderately successful startups, not about the most successful of all. You can easily verify I'm right about the outliers by traversing the Forbes 400.
- lrobb 15y agoOk... with correlation vs. causation out of the way, and a ridiculously small sample size to boot, it appears the average age of Forbes 400 tech company founders was almost 32 at the time of the founding their companies (http://goo.gl/iHAEe http://goo.gl/iHAEe). I have a feeling that's not what you meant when you said "young"...? Maybe you meant to restrict that to only founders that wrote the code their companies are based on? In which case, yeah, the founders of facebook, google, and Microsoft were all young when they started... I'd be careful drawing too many conclusions on that sample size, however.