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>"...remember that great companies are not usually created by experienced people..." I was reading a post on quora about ageism that is quite relevant. http://
by nahname 13y ago
>"...remember that great companies are not usually created by experienced people..."
I was reading a post on quora about ageism that is quite relevant.
http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/What-do-people-in-Silicon-Valley-plan-to-do-once-they-hit-35-and-are-officially-over-the-hill http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/What-do-people-in-Silico...
TLDR:
Jimmy Wales 35 when he started wikipedia
Mark Pincus was 41 when he started Zynga
Reid Hoffman was 36 when he founded Linkedin
Marc Benioff was 35 when he started Salesforce
Robert Noyce started Intel at 41 with a 39 year old Gordon Moore
Irwin Jacobs was 52 and Andrew Viterbi was 50 when they founded Qualcomm
Pradeep Sindhu was 42 when he founded Juniper Networks
Michael Arrington started TechCrunch when he was 35
+ many more