Dilbert on Experience

Posted on February 19, 2008
Filed Under Entrepreneurship |

If you look at the great achievements in history, they are usually accomplished by younger people. Those people continue to acquire relevant experience throughout their careers but their successes do not continue at the same rate. For anything important, experience probably has a strong negative correlation with success. If that weren’t true, all the hit songs, hot startups, and new inventions would be coming from geezers. [From The Dilbert Blog: Experience]

It’s a good point, but one that discounts serial entrepreneurship.

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