Founders of health and biotech unicorns are older on average, Ali Tamaseb said.
The notion of the teenage and twenty-something technology entrepreneur looms large. In reality, the most successful companies are more commonly founded by people in their 30s or older. Among startups valued at $1 billion or more created over the last 15 years, the median age of the founders when starting their businesses was 34, according to research in a new book called Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups.
The finding offers new evidence that leaders with some experience bring advantages, said Ali Tamaseb, the author and a partner at the venture capital firm DCVC. There are, indeed, many successful billion-dollar startup founders in their early twenties, Tamaseb wrote in the book, but most of them aren t. His takeaway: Age doesn t matter.
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KVH to Further Refresh Its Board of Directors
May 3, 2021 GMT
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (BUSINESS WIRE) May 3, 2021
KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI), a leading provider of mobile connectivity and inertial navigation solutions, announced today that it has nominated two new highly qualified independent director candidates, Cielo Hernandez and Cathy-Ann Martine-Dolecki, for election to the KVH Board of Directors (the “Board”) at the Company’s upcoming 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”).
On behalf of the Board, Martin Kits van Heyningen, KVH’s chairman and chief executive officer, stated:
New Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler
“I feel incredibly privileged to join the SEC’s team of remarkable public servants,” Gensler said in a statement.
“As Chair, every day I will be animated by our mission: protecting investors, facilitating capital formation, and promoting fair, orderly, and efficient markets. It is that mission that has helped make American capital markets the most robust in the world,” he added.
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The SEC is now back to full strength with five members, and Democrats have cemented their 3-2 majority.
Gensler was sworn in as a member of the SEC three days after the Senate confirmed him to lead the nation s top financial regulator.
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