Human life span is considered as an average of 79-80 years, so what is the right age to begin a new venture to achieve success. When I was looking for ages at which entrepreneurs started their companies and made it big I found this very interesting visualization.
From the biographies of top 100 founders on the Forbes List they have found that 35 is the most common age to start one of the top companies in the world. The result is a bell curve, just like in school most people get grades somewhere in the middle, in life most people succeed mid-life, that is about 35, for the current generation.
The above visualization is interactive and puts together all the right things that we need in an interactive viz. The circles highlighted on click shows us the age, name and the company started by the entrepreneur. The most impressive thing conveyed from the viz is the claim that it poses. It is the right way to target your audience and deliver your message, and it does everything right to the dot.
This was just an interesting find that I wanted to share with the class. With the quarter almost coming to an end, we have almost figured out the dos and don’ts for visualizations. This is one such viz that made me think of how far I have got from where we started.
http://fundersandfounders.com/too-late-to-start-life-crisis/