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Torres: Having children at a younger age is optimal

Elias Torres · Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 21, 2025 · at 53:12

Elias Torres is the co-founder and CEO of Agency and former co-founder of Drift. He discusses family planning and balancing parenting with career ambitions.

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“The best time to our children is when we're younger, unless we have unlimited resources, right?”

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