Rise of Adolescent CEO's

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 23 February 2012, 01:09 IST   |    1 Comments
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Bangalore: Silicon Valley is blooming with budding entrepreneurs- Differ in many ways but common in one thing- Age group.

Valley’s most of new chief executives are  Adolescents. While a little data on the phenomenon exists, venture capitalists say they are funding more chief executives under age 21 than ever before.  

While many people want to get younger, these ever-young executives wish to be few years older and they have many reasons to wish so.

Josh Buckley, MinoMonsters

Age: 20

Buckley is looking forward to attend the game developers conference in San Francisco next month, particularly for parties where he can chit-chat with industry A-listers. But there is one problem, he may be turned away from the parties because he is not old enough to drink. He will just turn 20 this week and the fake id he made is recently confiscated.     

"At a certain point, they can't get much younger or we're going to be invested in preschool," said Marc Andreessen, whose VC firm backs Buckley’s company.



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