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There are, indeed, many successful billion-dollar startup founders who launched their companies in their early twenties—but that’s not the case for most billion-dollar startup founders. We just hear less about the older ones from the media.

Credit Karma became a dominant player in the space, gathering over eighty million users, and in 2020 it was acquired by Intuit, a public company in the financial software space, for $7.1 billion.

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On the morning of May 11, 2021, Sam Bankman-Fried made his first television appearance. He sat at his trading desk and talked into his computer screen to two female reporters on Bloomberg

Google was the twelfth search engine. Facebook was the tenth social network. iPad was the twentieth tablet. It’s not who gets there first. It’s who gets there first when the market’s ready.