Of course you know about the "pinboard" site Pinterest, which attracts 20 million visitors a month and has been valued at, oh, a cozy $1.5 billion. And Spotify, the Internet music service, is a whisker from being a household name, with more than three million paying users and a reported $220 million funding round waiting in the wings. To have created either company would be a pretty amazing lifetime achievement.
The fact is, though, the two companies' founders are just getting started. Pinterest's leaders--Ben Silbermann and Evan Sharp--are each just 29 years old. The serial entrepreneur behind Spotify, a Swede named Daniel Ek, is also a year shy of 30. In the age of Mark Zuckerberg, it's easy to shrug at tales of fabulous success among the improbably young. But seriously, now: How many great, disruptive businesses had you launched by age 29?
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