Patrick Collison: Significant work is very commonly done in one's twenties
Patrick Collison · Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018) · Mar 9, 2020 · at 18:34
Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison explains why Silicon Valley investors did not question the youth and inexperience of the founders during early fundraising.
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“By the time people become famous because the thing they worked on succeeded, they tend to be older. But that means the mental image we have of people who do successful things is like 10 to 20 years, maybe even more, older than the ages at which they tend to have actually done them, right? And VCs and investors and just people in general in Silicon Valley, I think, are sort of unusually sort of attuned to this fact and recognize and realize that sort of, hey, really significant work not only can be done by people in their twenties, but is very commonly done by people in their twenties.”
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