We assume entrepreneurs peak in their twenties, but a Kellogg School study of 2.7 million company founders found the average founder of the fastest-growing tech firms was 45, and a 50-year-old is nearly twice as likely to build a runaway success as a 30-year-old
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The youthful founder story has always had a strong visual grammar: the dorm room, the hoodie, the early all-night build, the person barely out of university who sees what older people have missed. It is a compelling story, and it has real examples behind it. But it is also a selective story.
A large study of founder age and company growth gives a more sober picture. In Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship, Pierre Azoulay, Benjamin F. Jones, J. Daniel Kim, and Javier Miranda used administrative d
A large study of founder age and company growth gives a more sober picture. In Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship, Pierre Azoulay, Benjamin F. Jones, J. Daniel Kim, and Javier Miranda used administrative d
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