Jack Dorsey

The CEO Doc: timeline every founder's apprenticeship-to-hit arc

In 2013 Sam built a 'CEO Doc' mapping ~500 people's lives into three phases: apprenticeship, first hit, and self-actualization. Example: Jack Dorsey apprenticed as a taxi-dispatch nobody from 22-28, then started Twitter at 28 and hit big by 29. Averaging the ages shows what's possible and when.

“So I created— oh wait, is it not working? Um, I created this document where I would take— I think I had a list of 500 people And I would make timelines for each of their lives and I would say started their— it was broken into apprenticeships, first hit, and then the self-actualization mode.”

Steal thisBuild timelines of people you admire split into apprenticeship, first hit, and self-actualization to see what's realistic at your age.