It doesn’t really matter what hobbies they had. The more divers the better. Sports, music, community work, hunting, dancing, computer games etc. One aspect was very surprising for me: if they weren’t good at it, they stopped and started looking for a new hobby.

I studied entrepreneurship because I was interested in the scientific view on successful founders. I focussed on their childhood and wanted learn more about items that predict future success. I can list a few of them:

1. Moderate rule breaker
2. Many and divers hobbies
3. Many and divers work experiences
4. Entrepreneurial parents
5. Being interested in economics and entrepreneurship

There are many more…. From my perspective you shouldn’t pay too much attention to famous unicorn founders. There is a reason why their companies are called unicorns.

The average successful founder is 43 years old, learned 20 years all details of the industry he is working in, comes across a problem and uses his industry-network so solve it and make a business out of it.

Hope this helps 😊