Don't Let Age or Experience Shatter Your Dreams

I have wanted to follow up watching the biography of Ferdinand Porsche with a post, however I couldn't think of what to talk about until it hit me this moment, so here it goes:

While watching the biography, the most interesting thing that stuck out to me was the resiliency and creativity Ferdinand possessed at such a young age. For instance, he was tinkering with his own inventions revolving around electricity and batteries at age 12, nowadays your typical 12 year-old would only think about tinkering with his PS3 or ipod ( and not the inventive type of tinkering of course). Then, by age 25 Ferdinand developed what was the first ever hybrid car, using two electrical/gas engines that powered each front tire of the then enormous carriage-looking car. And as if making it a hybrid wasn't enough, he also created a car that at the time was considered one of the fastest, reaching a blazing 9mph top speed. Of course, after all of this he went on to create Porsche which I am sure you all have heard about.

So, my point to this story is that age is simply just a number when it comes to new innovations. If you don't believe me look at Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk, or Kevin Rose, or even the dudes from Youtube. The parallel between all these people is that they all had great ideas, but little experience in each of their respective industries. This lack of experience or their age, however did not deter them from seeing their idea to fruition. Now, you might say, well the reason each of these people succeeded to the point they are today is because they got their idea into the hands of the right people or the people with the experience to make their ideas scale. My response would be that I agree, although I would also say that the thing that separates this group from everyone else, is that they actually had the nerve to turn that great idea into something the experienced people (i.e. VCs) would want to be part of.

To close, I would just like to reiterate that age and experience should not mean that you cannot make your dream happen. Look at Wes and I, I am sure you probably have heard the story of how we went from reading an article on coworking in Entrepreneur Magazine, to putting together a team that could help us bring coworking to DE in just under 3 months. And what's my age again? .......... That would be 23.

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