## Metadata - Author: [[Benn stancil|Benn Stancil]] - Full Title:: American Dynamism - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/american-dynamism - Read date:: [[2025-04-04]] ## Highlights > But that seems awfully romanticized. Despite the lore of the wunderkind founder, there’s [some evidence](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cassyoung_repeat-founders-are-statistically-more-likely-activity-7199076551953444866-FOwq/) that experienced founders [outperform](https://mode.com/blog/are-experienced-founders-better) junior ones. And even if the generational winners are built by college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Dylan Field, and the Collison brothers, the mid-career founders are almost certainly the middle class of the tech industry’s startup successes. Though we like to act as if Silicon Valley works because it attracts the [crazy ones and the misfits](https://fs.blog/steve-jobs-crazy-ones/), its real power is in how it makes acting like crazy misfit feel safe. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jr167ve0yvshvazezzrzz67d))