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by yrgulation 1385 days ago
Appears to firmly contradict this: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/youll-never-guess-avera...

Makes me wonder if news agency workers just pull stuff out of their behinds.

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I usually drop this list [0] into threads about stories pushing the super young founder myth:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18213942

The only thing particularly interesting about the super young founder myth, is just how drastically off the mark it is. The very few outliers are just that.

[0] a big list of founder ages for prominent tech companies

Thanks for that - bookmarked! Shows there is still a chance ;)
Evergreen. How VICE choses stories https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA
I can only begin to imagine the harm incompetent media does to societies. I am not for censorship but there should be some standards.
Should probably tell people that's from 2018, and the FT article is from today. [0]

Unless, of course, you wouldn't want people to know that! (:

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180208022213/https://www.inc.c...

Yeah because so much changed since 2018 (:
just the biggest event in our human life time :)
How much do you think that has impacted the age of founders?

My general assumption is the age would be similar to what it was 4 years ago.