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Adithya Pappala

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Young Founders are less likely to Succeed!! On average, founders of high-tech startups launch their companies at 42 years old. For the top 0.1% of startups-those with the highest growth or successful exits-the average founder age climbs to 45 years

Anonymous 2

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Unpopular opinion, but I think this data is skewed by survivorship bias. Of course the top 0.1% of startups will have older founders - they've had more time to accrue the necessary experience and connections. But for every successful 45-year-old founder, there are countless others in their 40s who never made it past the seed stage. The real question is whether age is a causal factor or just a correlation.

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