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Why 20-Somethings Are the Most Successful Entrepreneurs 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 PL. 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. Yes, I said it. 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. 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: (Some of the) Most Successful Entrepreneurs of our Time and Their (Age): : Steve Jobs (21) Steve Wozniak (26) Founders of Microsoft : Bill Gates (20) Paul Allen (22) Founder of Facebook : Mark Zuckerberg (20) Founder of Wal-Mart : Sam Walton (26) Anyone else recognize the pattern? Each one of the founders was between the ages of 20 and 26 when they founded what turned out to be one of the most successful companies of our lifetime. In Pictures: The 10 Most Important Lessons For 20-Something Workers 20-Somethings Have Nothing to Lose One of the main reasons that young entrepreneurs can build incredibly successful companies is that they really don’t have anything to lose. Most of these entrepreneurs are used to living in a cheap college apartment and eating ramen noodles. At that age, the entrepreneur usually doesn’t have a mortgage, a car payment, or a built-up lifestyle to maintain. On the contrary, a more experienced entrepreneur that is starting a company later i