""I always advise to young people: Go work at a best-practices company somewhere where you can learn a lot of basic fundamental things [like] how to hire really well, how to interview, etc.," Bezos said during an interview at Italian Tech Week last fall. "There's a lot of stuff you would learn in a great company that will help you, and then there's still lots of time to start a company after you have absorbed it.""
"Working at a company, instead of immediately trying to start one, "increases your odds" of being successful, he added. Bezos, now the third-richest person in the world at a $268 billion net worth, founded Amazon when he was 30 years old after about a decade of work experience. Both Gates and Zuckerberg, on the other hand, were just 19 years old when they launched Microsoft and Facebook, respectively. Still, Zuckerberg is the sixth-wealthiest person in the world with a $231 billion net worth,"
Some major tech founders left college early, including Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, who launched Facebook and Microsoft at 19. Those cases are exceptions to the idea that all major tech companies were founded by college dropouts. Young people can benefit from working at best-practices companies to learn fundamentals such as hiring and interviewing. Gaining work experience before founding a company increases the odds of success. Amazon was founded at age 30 after about a decade of work experience. Amazon has a $2.64 trillion market capitalization, and key tech founders hold multibillion-dollar net worths.
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