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by tnmrnis 3423 days ago
I'm 26 and feel the same sometimes. Then I look around me and realize that I know just one person that managed to build a successfull company before 30. All other successful founders I know started their company in there mid to late 30s.

My father started a successfull company when he was almost 60.

You need to realize that the young founders seem to be quite successfull for high risk ventures but the big mass of successfull startups is built in the not so visible B2B market, where your value significantly increases with work and industry experience. The B2B market is also much easier to bootstrap since you're much more likely to know your potential customers before you built a product.