You may have a point but you should argue against the data in the article rather than one anecdote.
This tells a different story than the article which focuses on the average age of companies including time not part of the Fortune 500.
It would be interesting to run the same analysis for the Fortune 100 and the fortune 500 to 400 companies
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/only-52-us-companies-have-bee...