创业要趁早:为什么20多岁的人会成为最成功的企业家?

When it comes to building a successful company, most investors and business advocates look for companies with an experienced management team. They want someone that has a “successful track record” with experience forming teams, writing business plans, building products, and managing a P&L.
说到要创立一家成功的企业，大多数的投资商和企业倡导人都会找一支有管理经验的团队。他们要找的是那种曾经有过很高成就，并且在团队组织、撰写商业计划、产品建设以及成本和利润控制方面都有经验的人。

You can’t blame them. As with almost everything in life, practice makes perfect and experience provides learning lessons that allow for improvement and growth. While betting on experienced batters can certainly produce doubles, triples, and even home-runs; the grand slams of entrepreneurship come from the young and ill-experienced 20-somethings.
你不能怪他们这样做，对于生活中的大多数事情来说，都是熟能生巧。有经验就能使改进和增长成为可能。一个有经验的击球手肯定能打出二垒打，三垒打甚至全垒打，而真正拿到大满贯的人往往是那些年轻而又没有经验的年轻人。

Yes, I said it.
确实如此，我说过。

That’s not what you’re going to read in the textbooks. You won’t hear that from a venture capitalist. And, you certainly won’t hear that in your MBA classes.
这些东西你在课本上是读不到的，你也不会听一位风险资本家说起，更不会在你的工商管理课程上听到。

I know, I know. Some of you will say that I am biased because I was a 20-Something young entrepreneur when I started Lendio, but let’s look at the facts:
我了解，我懂。你们当中会有人说我很偏见，因为我在20多岁还很年轻的时候就创立了Lendio公司，但是让我们一起来看看下面的这些事实：

(Some of the) Most Successful Entrepreneurs of our Time and Their (Age):
我们这个时代一些最成功的企业家以及他们的年龄：

1. Founders of Google: Sergey Brin (25) & Larry Page (25)
1. 谷歌公司创始人：塞吉·布林（25岁）；拉里·佩奇（25岁）

2. Founders of Apple: Steve Jobs (21) & Steve Wozniak (26)
2. 苹果公司创始人：史蒂夫·乔布斯（21岁）；史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克（26岁）

3. Founders of Microsoft: Bill Gates (20) & Paul Allen (22)
3. 微软公司创始人：比尔·盖茨（20岁）；保罗·艾伦（22岁）

4. Founder of Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg (20)
4. Facebook公司创始人：马克·扎克博格（20岁）

5. Founder of Wal-Mart: Sam Walton (26)
5. 沃尔玛创始人：萨姆·沃尔顿（26岁）