No way! At 40, I’m the perfect age to make TWO Microsofts! Or one Megahard!
Or conquer all of Asia and kill enough people, and cause enough children to be a significant part of the gene pool for thousands of years
Oppan Ghenghis style!
I can make Orange. All we do is take other people’s ideas, make them look a little nicer and charge 1000% more.
like the telephone company?
I’ve never seen capitalism explained better than this.
If you never try, you never have to give up.
Jokes on you, have years left until then.
If you start a business in your garage, I want in.
If you start a business in your garage, I want in.
I’m hanging potatoes from garages, want to join?
Oh-ho! Sounds like Squid’s Potato-Hanger Warehouse has some competition!
Sounds like a burgeoning business to me!
Gotta also be born into wealth so you can borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars from your family
You have to be born into wealth and not fuck it up.
2 sets of my great grandparents were quite wealthy. Unfortunately my grandparents and parents pissed it all away on stupid schemes.
Unfortunately it doesn’t look too promising on that front and it seems I’m kinda late to the startup/low interest loans and investment party.
Well maybe you’ll think about that before you’re born next time!
That’s correct, thanks
But maaa, I want my own e-corp producing proprietary garbage 😭
Eat your veggies Timmy… yes, they’re digitally signed by MS, don’t worry.
Joke’s on you, I gave up long ago!
Nah I’m too tired to give up
Sadly, the age of garage tech startups is over, big tech made sure of that. They now just buy tech start ups with no intention of leveraging their innovations, but rather to maintain the status quo. Late stage capitalism…
I know it’s not a business, but the whole fediverse gives “garage startup” vibes, and it’s refreshing.
no such thing as big tech. Just tech companies
Garage tech startups where the garage belongs to your already upper-income-class parents
Someone’s just going to steal whatever you make anyway.
I stole this comment
I stole this comment
I made an app that steals everyone’s comments and aggregates them into a feed. I call the app Lemception and I’m raising money for an ipo if you’re interested
Someone’s just going to steal whatever you make anyway.
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In all honesty the big market is basically full but nicht products still allow for small company creation
Silly. I gave up way before I was in my 20s.
Steve Jobs was 21 when he got Mike Markkula to invest a ton of money into incorporating Apple.
Bill Gates was 20 when he realized he came from a rich family thanks to his dad being a good lawyer and his mom was on a ton of Executice Boards.
Probably was the parents pushing him(and helping him ofc), but where is the “star child” history in that eh?
Ibm.
That’s how he got a hold of dos.
IBM is how he got into the PC infrastructure via licensing. He saw what the execs didn’t, that anyone could build hardware but what ran on it controlled the world. And I don’t know how true it is, but my understanding is that Gates was so shrewd he bet on getting that agreement before he even had the software in hand. Which if true says even more about the IBM execs who agreed to something sight unseen.
And I don’t know how true it is, but my understanding is that Gates was so shrewd he bet on getting that agreement before he even had the software in hand.
That’s not being “shrewd;” that’s just not giving a fuck about screwing over other people if your bet doesn’t work out.
I believe these are known as demotivational posters.
Upvoating for comedy not accuracy.
It’s unlikely to create a successful business late in life, but not impossible. Best of luck to all who are giving it a shot!
Not for me.
