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by glimshe 250 days ago
Most of successful founders are over 40. They should probably drop the paradigm entirely and start publishing a "40 over 40" list for up and coming founders.
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They didn’t care about success. They cared about flash and notoriety.

Which notably aren’t very often correlated with long term success, but aren’t completely divorced from it either.

The thing to realize is that the news is about notable things, and things are notable when they’re not normal/standard/boring.

In your personal life, it’s often (actually) ideal to live a life that no newspaper reporter would give a second thought about writing up.

It’s odd, seems like most executives 40 and up seem to only care about flash and notoriety too…
The ones I’ve seen who actually get things done, weren’t particularly.

And if not actually getting things done, in my experience the shelf life is short.

But hey, lots of different ways to get money, and as long as you can avoid a fraud charge I guess?