In the eternal question of age and the entrepreneur here is some data: Paul Kedrosky: Age and the Entrepreneur. This is interesting and surprising for me, but something caught my eye in the report itself. If you read it they also talk about education and there is one place where they give sales figure and number of employee for all the company they studied. They split this in three category all, all with a finished diploma from an ivy league and all with only high school diploma. The numbers are
All : average sales of 5.7 millions USD and an average of 42 workers
All ivy league founder : average sales of 6.6 millions USD and an average of 55 workers
All high school founder : average sales of 2.2 millions USD and an average of 18 workers
I wished they had splitted the data more because the average sales per worker is really bugging me. The ivy league numbers is 121818 per worker, the high school number is 122222 per worker. Maybe I’m the only one focusing on this number, but I like seeing it as the average value produced by workers. Anyway here comes the real story the number for all the company is 135714 per worker. The gap is more than 10%, so there is one category which is performing better than the two the report writer decided to extract. So I guess non ivy league college are good.