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Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012
- pg 14y agoI can fit it in an HN comment: Congratulations Nate, Adora, Aaron, Patrick, John, Dave, Eric, Adam, Steve, Danny, Robby, Victor, Matt, Drew, Arash, Alex, Boris, Alexis, Joshua, Blake, David, Zach, Dan, Kate, Seth, Ben, Anand, Philipp, and Prayag!
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- sethbannon 14y agoThanks PG. I counted 29 names -- if there were only one more YC alum on the lists we would have 30 YC Forbes 30 Under 30.
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- raldi 14y agoWhat's Emmett, chopped liver?
- cemregr 14y agoFeatured in Tech category is a YC reject :)
- pg 14y agoYipes, I missed an entire category: Congratulations Suhail, John, Apoorva, Matt, Mazy, Ben, and Emmett too!
- m0th87 14y agoDon't forget Kathryn. The Muse is YC funded as well. http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeji45eegdf/kathryn-minshew-27-founder-ceo-the-daily-muse/ http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeji45eegdf/kathryn-minshew-2...
- anandkulkarni 14y agoNot to mention Tom, Ilan, and Mahbod! http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeel45ldjm/mahbod-moghadam-ilan-zechory-tom-lehman/ http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeel45ldjm/mahbod-moghadam-il...
- pg 14y agoOops, yes, sorry guys.
- pg 14y agoKathryn = Kate.
- sixQuarks 14y agoForbes 30 under 30 is a joke. One of the characters on Bravo's "Startup Silicon Valley" was chosen a couple of years ago: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeji45ikli/sarah-austin-host-pop17-25/ http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeji45ikli/sarah-austin-host-... Anyone that's watched that show can tell you what a joke/fake she is. I'm not saying everyone on that list isn't impressive, but I would certainly take it with a grain of salt.
- mnicole 14y agoIt seems odd to me that they highlighted Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, etc. under Music when there are plenty of successful internet-/self-created acts that are much more impressive in talent and ability to market. Seems unfair to people who don't have millions of dollars and dozens of handlers. When I think 30 Under 30, I think people I don't know that are pushing the industry forward, not people that are shoved down my throat through old methods.
- tedunangst 14y agoWho do you think marketed lady gaga before she had dozens of handlers?
- untog 14y agoVery true, but doesn't that mean she belongs on the 30 under 30 list a few years ago, not 2012?
- mnicole 14y agoThis is more of what I was getting at; back when she was first up-and-coming and becoming a clear contender. Not x amount of albums and globally sold-out shows later. And to the sibling comment's point, I do actually think she's less influential than she has been in the past.
- tedunangst 14y agoOnly if you believe she is less influential than she used to be.
- pla3rhat3r 14y agoThis list just makes me depressed that I'm nearly 40 and haven't done half of what these brianiac kids have done. Er, I mean, BRILLIANT!
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- TommyDANGerous 14y agoProps to the FiveStar guys.
- adebelov 14y agoYC dominates the list :)
- Peroni 14y agoJust out of curiosity, is the list intended to be US specific or do they take non-US based folk into consideration?
- Matt_Mickiewicz 14y agoNice to see so many familiar names on the Tech 30 under 30 list, congrats to Dan Siroker from Optimizely, Anthony from Kaggle and Darian. (Disclosure: I was on the list last year).
- kayoone 14y agothat disclosure sounds like bragging, sorry
- HorizonXP 14y agoAnd what's wrong with that? People can't be happy with their accomplishments?
- michaelochurch 14y agoBeing on the list is not, itself, a real accomplishment. Building the business that gets you on the list is an accomplishment. After that, getting picked just means you know the right people. It's a derivative accomplishment that, on its own, has zero meaning or value. Be proud of the thing you built, not the social noise surrounding "cool kids" lists. Who gives a shit? Do something cool, and take pride in that.
- minwcnt5 14y agoNobody said he shouldn't be happy. The point was that bragging about them in public (as opposed to around friends or family) is unbecoming.
- jordo37 14y agoCongrats to all the YC folks! Amazing to see how much they dominated the list.
- cwe 14y agoIs there an actual list of only 30 names? Trying to read through this, I see 30 in each category. I guess "450 under 30" doesn't have the same ring.
- trotsky 14y agoThere are actually 40 names in just the tech category. Talk about completely unwilling to stick to the format.
- sunsu 14y agoCongrats to Darian! Radius is doing some amazing things!
- sprash 14y agoMostly kids of rich fucks... go figure.
- HorizonXP 14y agoI can assure you, one of my good friends is on that list, and he is far from being a child of some rich fuck. Temper your attitude, this is a significant accomplishment for these people. There's no need to be malicious against them for their success.
- sprash 14y agoSorry but I have a degree in nuclear physics, working a full time job and can't even afford a car. Something tells me those people just had a lot of luck!
- michaelochurch 14y agoYour sociological insight is spot-on (few people are born into VC connections) but your delivery sucks. Hate the game, not the player.
- HorizonXP 14y agoI'm going to sound brash, arrogant, and a bit racist when I ask this, but let me guess: you're probably not the child of immigrant parents. While there definitely is a "white" advantage in this world, and many people on these lists may have been born into privilege, your attitude towards it is pretty bullshit. My point about not being the child of immigrant parents was to highlight this attitude. Immigrant children tend to look at the world differently. They usually have to work harder to get their opportunities, and they'll do what it takes to get them. They have hustle. It's true, a lot of your success depends on who you know, not what you know. You can either mope around and accept that you'll never be "successful," or you can get your ass in gear and make your own luck. The choice is yours.
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- Impatient 14y agoDoes anyone under 30 (or 40, for that matter) read Forbes?
- argumentum 14y agoThe ones named to the lists (and their family/friends) do ;)
- Matt_Mickiewicz 14y agoYes.
- dysoco 14y agoI'm 15 and I read Forbes occasionally, some articles about startups are interesting.
- jedberg 14y agoI tweeted it, but I think I'll repeat it here: Proud to know and have worked with more than a few folks on Forbes' 30 under 30. Congrats to all of them!
- robryan 14y agoI am skeptical on these lists, how many tech people are they actually aware of to choose the list, would surprise me if it was chosen from a pool of less than 100 possible people. Also as I have seen in the past from these lists they use money raised as a metric for achievement/ success.
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- hack_edu 14y agoAt the risk of offending the rah-rah YC back-patting... the entire Tech section is full of people who run or founded companies. Those all could fall into the Media, Social, or Marketing sections. It just seems like they're piling all the big-named startup dudes in wherever they can. Shouldn't people blazing trails of real, new technologies get some recognition here? Those who bootstrapped this year's hundredth social-local-mobile app are rarely the ones creating new technologies and platforms that change the way we use technology. And yes, there are exceptions, but lets be honest here. Heaven forbid some academics or open-source maintainers get some attention. They went that route quite a bit before this boom.
- trentmb 14y agosocial-local-mobile apps are easy to comprehend. Genuine innovation isn't always so.
- klochner 14y agoThe Forbes brand is about money and wealth - they're most famous for the Forbes 500 list of 500 wealthiest individuals - so including academics or open-source people wouldn't make sense.
- arkem 14y agoCongratulations to Parisa! It's good to see security represented on the list, and Parisa's work at Google makes her a brilliant choice.
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- donal_cahalane 14y agoProud of our four Irish entrants on the tech list. Go Ireland!
- jacquesm 14y agoEven Forbes outsources their vetting to YC ;)
- michaelochurch 14y agoThis thread has made me think less of Hacker News. All of it. The hate posts were pretty petty, but the fawning is pretty gross as well. We wonder why there's so much ageism. It's because age obsessions stem from this "cool list" narcissistic nonsense. But this is a prejudice all of us will face, because we're all (well, almost all, and with luck) going to be old some day. The sign of maturity is to see something like this, neither be impressed nor upset/resentful, and just move on. Some magazine made a list somewhere. There were names on it. Don't remember most of 'em. Not news, not interesting, #toobusygettingshitdone, et cetera. I didn't even read the list and have no idea who's on it, so I have no opinion of the selection, but the fact that people care is appalling.
- andyakb 14y agothe fawning? it's the end of the year and forbes came out with a list recognizing people of their accomplishments. it seems like many people in this thread know some of these people and wanted to congratulate them. what's wrong with that?
- k_kelly 14y agoI don't understand. The merits of hating / supporting a magazine is one thing. However achieving something of note before thirty is hardly an easy thing and not really something I'd criticize just to criticize. If you don't take support from your peers, or admire their success I don't really see what you yourself are working towards. Also, by commentating on the general state of HN instead of reading the article, you are not in fact improving the quality of conversation found here.
- Mz 14y agoOh, I think they make lists of "young people who did impressive shit" in part because most lists of "people who did impressive shit" are pretty well dominated by older people. It's a little like making lists of "women who are important for some fucking reason or other", which is lefthanded admission that general lists of "people who are important for some fucking reason or other" are extremely male dominated. -- Observation by a 47yo female
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- kerno 14y agoSo. Much. Clicking. Around.
- tedkalaw 14y agoCongrats Remind101 and ClassDojo! It's cool to see ImagineK12 teams up there :)
- wilfra 14y agoIt's obnoxious how they do these things, milking every last pageview they can possibly get. I can't make it through this and I'm extremely interested in the subject matter. Is there a text list of all of the people and what company they are with somewhere? Preferably visible on one page?
- BallinBige 14y agoall about the ad impressions, at the end of the day. mighty mighty CPM dollars ya'll
- BallinBige 14y agoall about the ad impressions, at the end of the day. mighty mighty CPM dollars ya'll
- eranation 14y agoAs someone 35 years old, I wonder - how many successful co-founders are there between 30-40? are there any statistics on that? What is the histogram by age for top 1000 startups? (any metric marking what "top" means will do) And congratulations by the way to all the people on the list, instead of hurting my ego and discouraging me, I see this as a way to motivate me to make it to a 40 under 40 list (I'm sure there is one somewhere)
- petercooper 14y agohow many successful co-founders are there between 30-40? Historically, at least, it'd be most. In Gamers at Work, Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) even noted that he was seen as being a "young" founder in Silicon Valley being in his 30s in the 1970s. What we're seeing nowadays with 20-somethings is relatively new.
- mbesto 14y agohow many successful co-founders If you want to get into metrics, it'd help to define what you would consider successful. I'd think you'd do a disservice by conducting such a study.
- dotBen 14y agoJust remember this list is not based on meritocracy, most/all these people will have publicists and/or their startups will have "good" PR firm representation. If you secretly wish you were on this list but don't have the above then you are doing it wrong.
- DaniFong 14y agoNobody I know who is on the list has a publicist.
- petercooper 14y agoAlso true of many awards for companies, like "[$someMagazine]'s 10 Top Companies in Biotechnology". There are even cases where companies have to pay to be considered for such awards. I think a lot of people know that too but the awards are still considered reasonably prestigious.
- joshfraser 14y agoNo, but most of these founders are from an incubator like TechStars or YC. The lists are usually created by reaching out to a few key people and asking for recommendations.
- paganel 14y ago> Just remember this list is not based on meritocracy, most/all these people will have publicists and/or their startups will have "good" PR firm representation Yeah, somehow even I, a guy who has never been to the Staets, could figure that out only by reading the "Arts" section. Almost all of the people there were New-York-based or from around the area, it's like 2010s New York it's like Paris from 1920s full of bright artists and what have you, which I get the impression it's not true. Too bad for the arts, a pretty sweet deal for people making money out of it.
- georgecmu 14y agoTelling quote: At age 14, Wilson became the youngest ever to build a nuclear fusion reactor.