This article, which is short and well worth reading gave me some hope. Zuckerberg and company aside, it gives a bunch of examples and reasons why entrepreneurship and other creative endeavors are not only for the young-- not by a long shot. For example:
- Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation found that highest rate of entrepreneurial activity was in the 55-64 age group. Lowest was in the 20-34 age group.
- Ray Croc started McDonald's in his 50's.
- Colonel Harland Sanders started KFC in his 60's.
- The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen: still going strong.
- Arianna Huffington founded the Huffington Post at age 54.
- Marc Pincus founded Zynga at age 41.
