Next Steps: Britain’s Top 100 Young Founders Have Built Cheetahs, Gazelles And Unicorns But Will Any Attain Big Tech Status?

Looking at the United Kingdom’s startup ecosystem, it’s easy to form the impression that entrepreneurship – certainly in the arena of fast-growth, VC-backed businesses – is something of a young person’s game. Perhaps, to an extent, it is. Certainly, a disproportionate number of the founders that I speak to are under forty, a great many are in their twenties and a handful have yet to see their twenty-first birthdays.

You could argue that the relative youthfulness of the startup community reflects a willingness to take risks and pursue ideas before other pressures – such as bringing up children and meeting mortgage payments – begin to kick

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