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The experience runway

Young? Don't race the 45-year-olds. Start the runway now.

SWe reviewed the research on it.Starting

How to use it

The average age of the most successful founders was about 45, and years of industry experience were the lever, not youth. If you're young, your job isn't to beat 45-year-olds today; it's to start building experience early: sell, ship, teach, log it.

How sure we are

S Evidence: strong. Large trials or many studies, pointing the same way.

Sources

Azoulay et al. 2020 (US Census data on all founders).

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