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Headline is a bit misleading. By 40 he had already significant experience in the industry, as a menswear buyer for a department store and through his 30s a men
by jeremysmyth 11y ago
Headline is a bit misleading.
By 40 he had already significant experience in the industry, as a menswear buyer for a department store and through his 30s a menswear designer, both employed and freelance. Then he (the creative) and his partner (the business guy) created a startup leading to where he is today.
This isn't too unusual a story in the world of startups (not to minimize the achievement of his or any self-sacrificing startup), and doesn't reflect the title's premise at all.
- M8 11y agoAgree, "didn't accomplish anything" = "didn't achieve extraordinary success". Typical media.
- iamben 11y agoI don't know - I think it's more akin to spending 20 years as a dev in various companies, then one day saying "I'm finally going to take a chance on that start-up idea". We'd probably be saying pretty much the same thing (regardless as to whether some of what she/he'd done had made a real difference to those companies) - "she/he spent 20 years writing code, but XXX was her/his first real accomplishment/success..." As I've been told many, many times - overnight success is usually preceded by 10 years of hard work.
- leoc 11y agoYes: it reminded me of the old sour joke that musicians love about how it takes years of work to become an overnight sensation.