80% of top tech founders started companies in their 20s or 30s
Paul Hsiao · 20VC: Why You Have To Raise $100m+ If You Want To Go Big Today, The 5 Fundamentals To Starting and Scaling A Successful Marketplace & Why Female Founders Under-Promise and Over-Deliver with Paul Hsiao, Founding Partner @ Canvas Ventures · Apr 9, 2018 · at 16:39
Paul Hsiao, Founding Partner at Canvas Ventures, discusses key findings from Canvas's proprietary study analyzing data from the 500 most valuable tech companies over the past 30 years.
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“One commonalities, the most striking one is they are mostly started by young people. You know, we all know some of the extreme examples of Gates, Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs, who started their companies in their teens and early twenties, but I was surprised by how 80% of these 500 names The founders of these companies all started their company when they were in their twenties and thirties. In fact, if you look at the age group a little bit differently, 60% started their companies younger than age 35, and 40% of these very big winners, the founders were younger than 30 when they started these companies.”
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