Why People Focus On Exceptions Rather Than The Norm ?

Why People Focus On Exceptions Rather Than The Norm

sort of different industries from everything from sort of psychedelics to SpaceX to whatever it might be and so when I was you know thinking about sitting down with you today I thought maybe I'll just tell him where I'm trying to get to in my life I'm a I'm a 30-year old man so you know I'm I'm not in the early phases of my career does that mean for example that I can't make

ground now what phase of your career are you in I don't know because I had this 18 to 28 thing so I thought maybe I'm a little bit more rigid and you know there was research a few years ago from MIT and Northwestern and the US Census Bureau that found the average age of a founder of a fast growing Tech startup top one in 10,000 guess what the average age was on the day of founding guess 25 45 and a 50-year-old had a better chance than a

30-year-old but we never hear just like we never hear the story of these like Zig zaggers we only hear the Tiger Wood

story we only hear like Mark Zuckerberg famously said young people are just smarter when he was 22 do you hear him

saying that anymore no surprise surprise but we just we never we we like valorize precocity so I would not say that you're not in the early stages of your career you're certainly not by by that metric

and that's not to say that there aren't tremendous companies or if you know measured by market cap that some of that there are these amazing young Founders but they get outsized attention compared to what's the norm that that's another thing that's really important to me is not to say there aren't acceptions because there as many different ways to the top as there are human beings but I think we're constantly focusing on the exception when people should at least be aware of the norm so the average so the fastest growing did you say Tech Founders Tech startups but Tech in Tech

in this context also included things in agriculture right it's not just photos sharing apps like Tech broadly speaking which I think is important because it I think it's fair to say that it's less likely a 55-year-old would understand

some of the more emerging platforms that are native to say you know like a Mark Zuckerberg at 22 who's messing around in his dorm room with with computers and the internet yeah I think that's fair but technology touches a lot of other

areas of the you know it's like yesterday on the way here there was a I was learning about a software that I had never heard of because all of the computers were down in the airport right Technologies in all these places that we that are not as kind of uh don't have the sort of figure head that's publicly profiled the same way so if I if I do want to become okay so I understand that this season of my life I can do whatever I want in terms of I can aim at whatever I want doesn't mean I'm going to be good at it but if I just want to be more