Professionals daydreaming of starting their own businesses may figure that the best time to get started is when they’ve built career capital and stable finances. But founders like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Alexandr Wang have bucked the norm that you need decades of experience to be a successful entrepreneur. And now, Ronnen Harary, the 55-year-old cofounder of toy empire Spin Master, even says he “couldn’t start” his company at his current ripe age.
“I’m an advocate of just starting a little bit earlier, and then letting all the energy and all the benefits of starting earlier compound. And there’s a lot of benefits of starting in your 20s,” Harary said in a recent Business Insider interview.
