Three months ago, Leaders Fund Co-Founder Gideon Hayden ran a little experiment.

He looked at the ages of founders who had started ten post-ChatGPT AI startups like Anysphere and ElevenLabs, and then looked at the ages of the founders behind older giants such as Stripe and SpaceX. The average founder age had dropped from 31 to just 25.

“Having the best product is probably 15 percent of the battle.”

In thoughts shared on LinkedIn, Hayden said that either “some of these people are frauds,” or “there is a new generation of AI startup founders that are starting successful companies way younger than we’ve seen in the past, and doing it with much less capital and fewer people.”

AI startups are scaling faster and younger than ever. But early speed is not the same as long-term survival. Winnin

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