List of successful founders who didn’t go directly into entrepreneurship. https://t.co/5yjnGhRP0x
List of successful founders who didn’t go directly into entrepreneurship. https://t.co/5yjnGhRP0x
Every young person (and plenty of non-young people), trying to strike gold and solve problems, is architecting themselves after a dominant personality of our field.
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of t... See more
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of t... See more
Reggie James • A Land Without Giants
There’s no right or wrong in deciding where to work to prepare you for your own entrepreneurial journey. On average, founders of billion-dollar companies had eleven years of work experience before founding. They were more likely either to have started companies throughout their career or to have worked at brand-name corporations like Google, McKins
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
It turns out that a lot of billion-dollar startup founders, like Xu, also lack this kind of direct work experience in the industry they are disrupting. Among billion-dollar companies, fewer than 50 percent of founding CEOs and fewer than 30 percent of founding CxOs had much, if any, work experience that directly related to their startups. This mean
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Other than Google and Oracle, companies like IBM, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, McKinsey, Apple, Bain, Morgan Stanley, and NASA have all produced their fair share of billion-dollar founders.