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>"...remember that great companies are not usually created by experienced people..."

I was reading a post on quora about ageism that is quite relevant. http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/What-do-people-in-Silico...

TLDR: Jimmy Wales 35 when he started wikipedia

Mark Pincus was 41 when he started Zynga

Reid Hoffman was 36 when he founded Linkedin

Marc Benioff was 35 when he started Salesforce

Robert Noyce started Intel at 41 with a 39 year old Gordon Moore

Irwin Jacobs was 52 and Andrew Viterbi was 50 when they founded Qualcomm

Pradeep Sindhu was 42 when he founded Juniper Networks

Michael Arrington started TechCrunch when he was 35

+ many more



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