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How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs?

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Re: How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs?

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After parsing the comments, I have not seen one person mention management or leadership. Someone with 20 years experience hiring and leading teams is going to be much better than someone doing it for the first time in their life. The ability to know your weaknesses, surround yourself with good people who fit your vision/culture and address those weaknesses, is not something most 25 year olds can do. Most at 25 have no idea what their weaknesses are. which makes it all the more impressive when people like Zuck, Spiegel can scale into massive companies.

But I also understand why you would want to invest in a 20-something. On average, they are going to be more aware of emerging tech, and guided with the right advisors can get a company off the ground and then supported with the necessary pieces.

Re: How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs?

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with TekMol that it's an important point. Nowadays we have new types of SQL databases emerging. Some examples: TiDB (distributed) CockroachDB (distributed) Crate (uses SQL but isn't even relational) They all use SQL. Picking between these and more established SQL databases is worthy of discussion. Heck, based on what I see on Hacker News, picking between the established ones generates a lot of discussion, usu…

one of the community practices here is that you should take the most charitable interpretation of what is written. This precludes nitpicking. It's clear that the OP was referring to "I just use SQL" in terms of picking the most mature/standard database approach (relational databases) instead of getting caught up in the quagmire of niche and specialist database schemas.

That might not be so obvious to someone who isn't familiar with SQL databases. To those people, the "nitpick" added clarity.
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