Tufail@tufail

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CZ is clear that starting a successful company later in life is completely doable. He began Binance at 40, and now he’s 48, but before that he spent 17 years doing everything from coding to managing teams in a big org. He points out there’s this idea that founders are all super young, when in reality the average is 40-plus. The road isn’t smooth either, it takes a bunch of failures to get anywhere, and doing startups is genuinely hard. His advice is to try things early while keeping risk in check, so when you fail you can bounce back. He also warns against being too desperate or eager, because founders who want success too fast tend to crash.

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Tufail@tufail

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CZ is clear that starting a successful company later in life is completely doable. He began Binance at 40, and now he’s 48, but before that he spent 17 years doing everything from coding to managing teams in a big org. He points out there’s this idea that founders are all super young, when in reality the average is 40-plus. The road isn’t smooth either, it takes a bunch of failures to get anywhere, and doing startups is genuinely hard. His advice is to try things early while keeping risk in check, so when you fail you can bounce back. He also warns against being too desperate or eager, because founders who want success too fast tend to crash.

1mo