“People under 35 are the people who make change happen,”said Vinod Khosla,a venture capitalist(VC) in 2011.“People over 45 basically die in terms of new ,”Khosla,who believes that old industrialists can’t innovate because they keep“falling back on old habits”,said at the NASSCOM Product Conclave in Bengaluru,India.He wasn’t alone in his views.Silicon Valley VCs talked openly about their bias toward young industrialists.Some argued that Internet industrialists peaked at the age of 25.Khosla and those who think like him are wrong.The young may have good ideas,but there is no substitute for experience.experienced people.In 2008,I led a research team in
exploring the backgrounds of 652 USborn chief executive officers and heads of 502 successful engineering and technology companies established from 1995 to 2005.ot just the startups founded by the college dropouts(辍学者).These senior managers have ideas for solving realworld problems.In addition,they not only want to build wealth before they retire,but also like the idea of being their own bosses.According to the survey,we learned that the average and median age of successful founders is 39.,we looked at the backgrounds of 549 successful entrepreneurs in twelve highgrowth industries.The average age of male founders in this group is 40,and the average age of female founders is 41.The majority had two or more kids.Kauffman Foundation director of research,Dane Stangler,built his idea on our findings by analyzing Kauffman Firm Survey data and Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity,which uses data from the United States Census Bureau.He found that the average age of .,shifting to the 55~64 age group.,the contacts they have made,the networks they have formed,their ability to hire good management teams and their education give them greatest advantages.Young ?Benjamin Franklin certainly didn’t.He invented the lightning rod when he was 44.He discovered electricity at 46.He helped draft ,and he invented bifocals after that.Some of the most creative people of the century were also not young.解题导语 本文作者通过事实和例子证明一个人的创新能力与________”. B.dishonest behavior [词义猜测题。根据第三段的内容可知,作者用实例推翻了风险投资家们所认为的年轻人才是创新主力军的看法,由此可推断出,此处disservice意为“有害的行为”,下文中的ignoring也是解题的关键。do sb.a disservice意为“损害,伤害”。]nt about it.
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