The book 'Super Founders' provides insights that a founder's age does not correlate strongly with success. The median age of unicorn founders in the study was 34, with some founders as young as 18 and others as old as 68 when they started. On average, founders who were 34 or older had a more extended history of entrepreneurship than their younger counterparts. Examples include Marc Lore, who was 42 years old when he founded the e-commerce site Jet.com, and David Duffield, who was 64 when he founded human capital management software giant, Workday.
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