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This is true for “successful tech companies” but not for “mega successful tech companies” (e.g. Top 10 of all time, like Apple Google Microsoft Facebook Amazon Netflix etc.) There you will find the median age closer to 20 than 30.

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For what it's worth, Reed Hastings founded Netflix when he was 36, and Jeff Bezos founded Amazon when he was 30.

Sure, now average them with the other companies like Microsoft Google Facebook Apple etc

John D. Rockefeller was 31 when he founded Standard Oil.

Andrew Carnegie was 57 when he founded Carnegie steel.

My understanding is that JDR started his business at 20, got into oil at 24, bought out his partners, started a new partnership, and then ended that partnership at 31, naming the part of the business he got Standard Oil.

He did, which kinda underscores the argument that entrepreneurs with prior experience and connections have a higher chance of success.

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