It’s funny how almost nobody invests in anybody past 40. You can get paid, even paid very well, but not invested in. If it looks like investment in an individual, look again. It will actually be investment in something adjacent like a privileged network position.
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Forget where I saw it, but the ratio of startup success goes up with age of founders.
But older folks aren’t much in the environment where innovation happens, or where the money is being tossed around.
They’re at home, human-ing with their family, as humans do.
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the median age of successful founder is 39.2 according to Kaufmann, but notably, the outsize successes tend younger. The older ones produce a higher hit rate of lower magnitude.

