Founding-age list goes viral: Dario Amodei was 38, most tech founders were 30
akbirthko · x · 2026-10-27
A viral list compares how old founders were when they started generational tech companies: Dario Amodei was 38 at Anthropic, while Sam Altman (OpenAI), Elon Musk (SpaceX), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), and Jensen Huang (Nvidia) were all 30; Demis Hassabis was 34 at DeepMind, Reid Hoffman 35 at LinkedIn, Reed Hastings 36 at Netflix. The quoter quips that "two of these are not like the others."
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