Silicon Valley attracts a colorful mix of characters, from physics PhDs to chess champions, from product designers to master advertisers. A recent study tried to quantify what the typical successful founder looks like, and it's, surprisingly, a diverse 47-year-old without a computer science backgroundâ??—â??not the expected almost teenage and hoodied New England engineer.
This is hardly surprising as top founders and investors need to have a close relationship to reality. They need to think beyond the current cultural paradigm to what's outside, what's next and what's timelessly true. To do that, the greats cultivate systems and lateral thinking and reading extensively and broadly supports that.
Stereotypes aside, the titans of technology do usually have one thing in commonâ??—â??they love to read.
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