The "It's Too Late" Lie: Those Who Peaked After 40

Rich Karlgaard dismantles the young-genius myth with a single statistic: founders behind the fastest-growing 0.1% of US companies average age 45, not 25. Pierre Azoulay's analysis of 2.7 million entrepreneurs confirms a fifty-year-old is nearly twice as likely to build a top-tier venture as a thirty-year-old. Vera Wang pivoted at forty after seventeen years at Vogue; Grandma Moses picked up a brush at seventy-eight. The pattern isn't luck. It's compound interest on experience, what Karlgaard calls accumulation hiding in plain sight.

You'll learn:

- Why industry knowledge and networks outweigh raw energy

- The transfer list exercise that turns "irrelevant" past jobs into assets

- How the five-year rule reframes every late start