A new inforgraphic by HR Block (embedded below) titled “The New Generation of Tech Millionaires Under 30” highlights 9 entrepreneurs who made their millions before hitting 30.
It’s a very dangerous infographic. It’s dangerous because it perpetuates a myth of entrepreneurship that celebrates youth and inexperience, lauds the risk-taking dropout, and essentially, propagates an idea of entrepreneurship that finds little room for older, more experienced founders. According to this myth, the only successful entrepreneurs are business prodigies who started their first enterprise in their teens, worked their way to a million dollars before they could legally buy alcohol, and dropped out of school because, well, fuck school.
