Unfortunately, the world of startups has been associated with technology and youth., which usually produces hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurial failures. These failures, with consistency, lead to the emergence of great professionals with broader vision and experience in approaching the market and receiving its response clearly, accepting or not their service offer.
These professionals, emerging from one or several business failures, also develop many other skills, and some of them do not stop persevering in the search for and creation of new business models.
There is no preferred age for found a new company and be successful, just have business skills, observe, and a market prepared for the offer and above all continue to persevere.
– Joan Koum founded WhatsApp
– Michael Arrington starts TechCrunch
– Tim Westergren starts Pandora
– Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia
– Herbert Boyer founds Genentech
– Mark Pincus founds Zynga
– Robert Noyce founded Intel
– Eric Yuan founded Zoom
– Lynda Weinman founds Lynda.com
– Robin Chase founds ZipCar
– Craig NewMark founded CraigsList
– Ray Kroc starts MacDoland's
– John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola
– Karland Sanders starts KFC
A few more as an example: Costco, Red Bull, Geico, GoDaddy, Lululemon, The Gap, Intel, and Garmin were all started by people who had rich careers, extensive networks, lots of experience, and probably a midlife crisis or two under their belts.
