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I found it interesting that he is an older founder (37, from the article)and so a bit of a counterweight to "you have to be in your teens/early twenties to get
by plinkplonk 13y ago
I found it interesting that he is an older founder (37, from the article)and so a bit of a counterweight to "you have to be in your teens/early twenties to get funded/build a winning product" myth.
- ig1 13y agoThe Evernote founder Stepan Pachikov is 64.
- nemothekid 13y ago>"you have to be in your teens/early twenties to get funded/build a winning product" myth. This has almost always been a myth. Other than Snapchat/Tumblr & Facebook, what other 1B+ founders can you point to?
- vonmoltke 13y agoAmplified by the fact that news reporting gets much more mileage out of the 20-year-old college sophomore building a multimillion dollar business on a laptop in his dorm room than they do out of the 38-year-old who leaves the BigCo he has been working at for the past 15 years to build a multimillion dollar product to scratch a market itch the BigCos ignore (the classic Innovators Dilemma scenario).