As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
“Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.”
“Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.”