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. 

Ideal age to become an Entrepreneur
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

Facebook

19

3

Bill Gates

Microsoft

20

4

Steve Jobs

Apple

21

5

Sergey Brin

Google

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.

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