Metadata
- Author: 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 that experienced founders outperform 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, its real power is in how it makes acting like crazy misfit feel safe. (View Highlight)