What is the average startup entrepreneur age? ie your age (I am 26 almost)

"We used to have a joke in college, that the definition of a college man was somebody who couldn't count up to 70 without laughing." -- Don Knuth, after recommending a 69-bit processor design

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DocSavage2• 19 years ago

43 and 43. (My first startup was at 31. My partner/wife's first startup was at 20.)

gregp• 19 years ago

cellis4• 19 years ago

gustaf2• 19 years ago

26 when we started, turned 27 in June

gustaf2• 19 years ago

rest of the team was 24, 24 and 26 when we started heysan

chadboyda• 19 years ago

jamiequint• 19 years ago

kashif• 19 years ago

26 and 27(me)

motoko• 19 years ago

tyler• 19 years ago

andreyf• 19 years ago

chaostheory• 19 years ago

29 and 30

aarontait• 19 years ago

19... Looks like I'm the youngest one... Suckers!

mattculbreth2• 19 years ago

Sucker? Who's drinking the Heineken? :)

cellis4• 19 years ago

Actually, what you should have asked is "Who can get into a bar or club", since I can get alcohol any day of the week, if I wanted to :)

pc2• 19 years ago

Those of us not governed by inane US laws?

edu2• 19 years ago

heineken? Do you know there are better beers out there? ;)

rbitar• 19 years ago

pg4• 19 years ago

The avg for the last YC batch was 24.5. Range: 19 to 35.

DocSavage2• 19 years ago

Do you have the range for applicants?

pg4• 19 years ago

It's huge. Roughly 12 to 80.

curi• 19 years ago

24.5 mean or median?

pg4• 19 years ago

mean

aswanson3• 19 years ago

I know the sample size is small, but how did the +30 people compare to their younger peers, in terms of productivity/execution, dealing with adversity, etc? Any noticeable difference in character due to age?

pg4• 19 years ago

The two main differences are that the older guys tend to be better presenters, and more tied down geographically.

nostrademons2• 19 years ago

24 and 26 (me).

epi0Bauqu• 19 years ago

thejefe711• 19 years ago

pc2• 19 years ago

gibsonf12• 19 years ago

41 (first startup (architecture) @ 30) & 33

gibsonf12• 19 years ago

Before architecture: Victoria Bicycles (startup @ 17), Moondog BBS @17 (Used a commodore 64's random access floppy drive to create a dbase sytem), Business Design Consultants (Used an IBM PC w/ Watson soundcard and Dbase to create touch tone ordering system) @ 22

mkull• 19 years ago

sanj2• 19 years ago

I think the better metric is

age / (# of startups)

in my case: 36/3 = 12

nanijoe• 19 years ago

So how did those 3 startups work out?

sanj2• 19 years ago

The first was a group of college friends who wrote software for handhelds. It was really fun, and made enough to keep us above the grad student poverty line. We also always had nice(ish) computers. Given my low expectations, I count Scrawl as a success.

It was (effectively) cannibalized to start PatientKeeper. We raised ~$70M in venture and our software is now in use at an amazing number of hospitals. Though it hasn't had (I love this euphemism) liquidity event, I count it as a success. We employ ~90 people and touch thousands of physicans and hundreds of thousands of lives.

At the risk of being a tease, I'm not ready to talk about the third.

redrory• 19 years ago

david• 19 years ago

jkush• 19 years ago

29 (but 30 5 weeks from now).

falsestprophet• 19 years ago

bsaunder• 19 years ago

daniel-cussen• 19 years ago

19. Started the nerd club at 18.

ranparas• 19 years ago

While you guys talk about age, i'm going to continue my focus on my end goals !

euccastro• 19 years ago

Godspeed and good luck!

(Alas, you're still 76 keystrokes behind the guys who took 2 to state their age.)

P.S.: 32

mtbnnet• 19 years ago

Any body working on this longterm new market?

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PStamatiou• 19 years ago

trekker7• 19 years ago

This post is crying out for a bar graph based poll.

dexter• 19 years ago

yrashk• 19 years ago

almost 26

mytix• 19 years ago

elad2• 19 years ago

31. My first startup was at 22 though.

thomasswift• 19 years ago

vuknje• 19 years ago

wouter• 19 years ago

I'm 23!

Leon• 19 years ago

As am I!

edu2• 19 years ago

dottertrotter• 19 years ago

rwebb• 19 years ago

psb• 19 years ago

39 and trying to get my first startup done before 40

dcurtis• 19 years ago

What is the average startup entrepreneur age? ie your age (I am 26 almost)

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