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How old are people when they start interesting companies? Here’s a histogram of ages at founding for some hand-picked (founder, company) pairs: Details I made a list of companies I thought were in some way interesting or impressive: 0 Viaweb 1 Netscape 2 Microsoft 3 Apple 4 Amazon 5 Facebook 6 Stripe 7 Paypal 8 SpaceX 9 Airbnb 10 Google 11 Alibaba 12 Tencent 13 Netflix 14 Oracle 15 IBM 16 Baidu 17 Uber 18 Palantir 19 Anduril 20 Oculus 21 Instagram 22 Twitter 23 Lyft 24 Intel 25 Walmart 26 Samsung 27 Disney 28 Boeing 29 Ford 30 Standard Oil Company 31 General Electric 32 Fairchild Semiconductor 33 Tesla For each of these companies, I went to Wikipedia and looked up:
Founders Home How old are people when they start interesting companies? Here’s a histogram of ages at founding for some hand-picked (founder, company) pairs: Details I made a list of companies I thought were in some way interesting or impressive: 0 Viaweb 1 Netscape 2 Microsoft 3 Apple 4 Amazon 5 Facebook 6 Stripe 7 Paypal 8 SpaceX 9 Airbnb 10 Google 11 Alibaba 12 Tencent 13 Netflix 14 Oracle 15 IBM 16 Baidu 17 Uber 18 Palantir 19 Anduril 20 Oculus 21 Instagram 22 Twitter 23 Lyft 24 Intel 25 Walmart 26 Samsung 27 Disney 28 Boeing 29 Ford 30 Standard Oil Company 31 General Electric 32 Fairchild
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