The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year
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The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year
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#2Aww was hoping this would be a Peter Thiel immortality quest story :/
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#3Aww was hoping this would be a Peter Thiel immortality quest story :/
title definitely made me click and was true enough that i wasnt mad
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#4Title is very misleading - founders are older every year they dont age faster...
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#5Title is very misleading - founders are older every year they dont age faster...
I think it's possible to have a little fun with your titles without them being "misleading". And in this case there's a reading that's straightforwardly correct: there's an abstract "Average Founder", and each year that hypothetical person is six months older than the prior year's Average Founder.
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#6Title is very misleading - founders are older every year they dont age faster...
I thought the title was pretty clear.
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#7It'd be interesting to see how this correlates across markets in different eras of history.
At the core, being a "founder" (as cringe as the cult around that word has become) is about accumulating capital. As technology advances it becomes more capital-intensive to create. You outcompete other businesses based on how advanced your technology is. Older people generally have more money even if for no other reason than they've had more time to accumulate it.
Thus, so long as you are still able to grasp the concepts related to the technology and can act upon it to accumulate more capital, you're at an advantage in the quest to start a successful business over younger people. Not an insurmountable advantage for the younger people to overcome, mind, but it's still an advantage.
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#8Unlike the rest of us who age 12 months every year ...
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#9Unlike the rest of us who age 12 months every year ...
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#10I would say that in the years I was a founder I definitely aged faster than that ;)