But there is one time when youth is an advantage in the startup world--when you're pitching your company to VCs; youngest successful founders were those who had receive funding from New York venture capital firms, even though their average age is 38.7--old they could have be Mark Zuckerberg parent when he had started to Facebook from his dorm room at 19.
But there is one time when youth is an advantage in the startup world--when you're pitching your company to VCs. The youngest successful founders were those who had received funding from New York City-based venture capital firms, although even then their average age was 38.7--old enough to have been Mark Zuckerberg's parent when he started Facebook from his dorm room at 19.