Episode 16: Driving Innovation: Part 2
Exponential Wisdom
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The Age Bias in the Dot Com Revolution
The average age of the engineers who built the Apollo program, any guess on that age? I have no idea. Same age, mid to late 20s. NASA was a very young organization and the reason is interestingly enough, there was no one to tell them how to do it. And just one last example, if you fast forward from the 1960s to the 1990s during the dot com revolution, if you look at theAverage age of theEngineers who built the early dot com companies who left school,. even younger than most Fortune 500 CEOs. So we had this age bias that is important to be careful about. Now there's mental age and physical age, but I think it's really
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