Grammar abortion. The age of the average founder rises. The average founder doesn't age at a rate less than 1 year per year.
The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year
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#12I would say that in the years I was a founder I definitely aged faster than that ;)
100%, I think there were weeks when I aged a year...
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#13Does this go up exponentially based on how many companies you found?
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#14Grammar abortion. The age of the average founder rises. The average founder doesn't age at a rate less than 1 year per year.
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#15My current experience is quite the opposite, I have the feeling I aged more than 1 year in the last 6 months after funding....
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#16Grammar abortion. The age of the average founder rises. The average founder doesn't age at a rate less than 1 year per year.
No "average founder" exists, but the mathematical average of founder ages does!
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#17It'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…
I don't think technology is a linear progression towards more and more capital intense businesses.
Software businesses in the 2000-2020 era were famously capital light. Much more so than the technology businesses that came before them. I think these extremely capital light businesses were an aberration that briefly lowered average founder age and now we're just reverting to the mean.
Yes, AI is capital intense, but many of the world's previous technological endeavors were also capital heavy.
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#18Title is very misleading - founders are older every year they dont age faster...
If the title was true they actually age slower. Begin a startup to extend your life!
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#19Grammar abortion. The age of the average founder rises. The average founder doesn't age at a rate less than 1 year per year.
However, an additive 6 months is definitely what some have done (1yr + 6mo). Stress is a killer.
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#20Grammar abortion. The age of the average founder rises. The average founder doesn't age at a rate less than 1 year per year.
Please just let me believe I can double my lifespan as percieved by the rest of the world by becoming the average founder.