No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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There are a lot more companies with a lot younger people. It is just like 23-year-olds are starting companies, and they are scaling really quickly.
When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.
It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.
When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.
There's nothing about Lynn Good at age 30 or age 35 that would have said, 'I am setting my sights on being a CEO.'
If somebody's offering you a $400 million company at the age of 29, I've got the ego to say, 'I'd like a shot at that.'
The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.
The fact is that you are never too old to innovate.
You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time.
Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.
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