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Comment on Staying Credulous: On Not Letting Being 40 Get In The Way

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"Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc." - it's interesting to see Arrington so narrowly define successful entrepreneur stories.

Dietrich Mateschitz, the founder of RedBull, was in his mid-40s when he started the company and it wasn’t until he was in his mid-50s that it really took off.

In my experience the 40s seems to be a sweet spot – resources, contacts, and experience all come together at that point . . .

Ray Crok was 52 when he discovered a little restaurant chain called McDonalds while selling them milkshake machines.

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