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The average successful entrepreneur is in their 40s, but the founders of the absolute most massive tech companies were mostly in their teens or 20s (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and in a previous generation companies like Dell and Compaq). There are several more founded by people in their 30s and 40s like Amazon and Netflix. The outlier exception is Qualcomm whose founder was 51.



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