Ideal age to become an Entrepreneur
What is the ideal age to become a successful Entrepreneur? If you are an entrepreneur, then at what age did you start your own business?
I strongly believe that there is no specific age to become an entrepreneur because when you are following your passion then age doesn’t really matter. Many people say an entrepreneur is a young person’s game and they believe that a young person produces the most successful new firms. Also, research published in the Harvard business review by MIT Solan School of Management in the US, state that 45 is the average age of a successful startup founder.
Also, another research led by Professor Pierre Azoulay and his conclusion come that the founders of the top startup based on growth companies started their business when they were average 45 years old. The research also locked the age 40 to 45 of 2.7 million business start-ups in the past 7 years.
Do you want to know at what age, world top entrepreneurs started their own business?
Here is the list to support the belief that there is no age limit to becoming an entrepreneur – this shows top 10 who started very early and top 10 who started late but it was never too late.
Sr. | Founder | Company | Age |
1 | Michael Dell | Dell | 18 |
2 | Mark Zuckerberg | 19 | |
3 | Bill Gates | Microsoft | 20 |
4 | Steve Jobs | Apple | 21 |
5 | Sergey Brin | 25 | |
6 | William Hewlett | HP | 25 |
7 | Akio Morita | Sony | 25 |
8 | Steve Wozniak | Apple | 26 |
9 | David Packard | HP | 26 |
10 | Phil Knight | Nike | 26 |
11 | Bernard Marcus | Home Depot | 48 |
12 | Adolf Dassler | Adidas | 48 |
13 | Tony Ryan | Ryanair | 49 |
14 | Alan Shugart | Seagate | 49 |
15 | Harold Stanley | Morgan Stanley | 50 |
16 | Gary Burrell | Garmin | 51 |
17 | Henri Nestlé | Nestlé | 52 |
18 | Yoshisuke Aikawa | Nissan Motor | 53 |
19 | Estée Lauder | Estée Lauder | 54 |
20 | Sheldon Adelson | Las Vegas Sands | 55 |
The Author is a Leadership Trainer and Founder of Engenius, an Executive Education platform. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and writes on Leadership, Economy and Current Affairs and can be contacted at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mustafakamalpk.