Whatever it takes, don’t let those lists of overachieving under-30s get you down
Lately I have been consumed by the thought I am running out of time. Because of the coming ecological collapse, of course. But, more pressingly, in the short term, to be named in a 30 Under 30. Yes, to be included in one of those opaque, often random-seeming lists of an industry’s promising up-and-comers that mean nothing and that no one takes any notice of – although, at 28, with my opportunities dwindling, I would say that, wouldn’t I?
Jessica Richman seems to understand, even if you don’t. The co-founder of uBiome, a multimillion-dollar biotech startup selling gut-microbiome-testing kits, on Friday she was said to have shaved a few years off her age – OK, a decade.
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