You know, it's funny. I talked to a friend recently, he was miserable in his job. And I said, you shouldn't become a programmer because you're already in the computer industry. And he said, Jason, I'm too old. It's too late. You know, I'm 4041 years old, I can't learn how to program.
And I looked at him and I said, I'm 40 years old. And I started learning how to program when I was in my late 20s, early 30s. And I didn't even really learn that much about it, just the basics until I was like, in my early mid 30s, it's never too late to start something new. There are so many celebrities and inventors and billionaires like Warren Buffett, for example, who didn't make their first million till they were like 50 years old. It's never too late. If you're breathing and you're alive, it's not too late.
You can start something new. You know, just because you see a startup out there. Like Mark Zuckerberg is a perfect example just because he started Facebook in college and became successful right away. Doesn't mean everybody was like that. You know, that's actually the small percentage. The larger percentage is people in their 30s and 40s and 50s that are becoming successful because they're working hard for their entire lives to reach a certain goal.
And when people say it's too late, I just think it's ridiculous to hear that I can give you lists of people who didn't become successful until their late 30s 40s and 50s, even 60s