Is There Really a Perfect Age for Building Successful Startups?

All the data says there’s a perfect age, but the data doesn’t seem to match people’s behavior. Why not?

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readAug 14, 2023

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The average age of a successful entrepreneur is supposedly somewhere around 40 years old. I’ve been thinking about that stat a lot recently since I just turned 40. Is 40 really the age…

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I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com