Parashat Noach

This weeks Torah Portion is about Noach, the flood, building of the Ark and tower of Babel

Noah was six hundred years old when the Flood came, waters upon the earth.

Genesis.7.6

The Myth of the Young Entrepreneur is not supported by research The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45. Don’t believe if you are past 30 you can no longer start the next big thing.

While important to get feedback on your startup, be mindful of the audience.  Don’t listen to longtime critics, and focus on the task at hand. For 120 years Noah was laughed at for building the Ark. Not for the structural integrity, but for the social integrity he represented.

The Importance of Unity

After the Flood Noach’s descendants, King Nimrod brought together the people to build a city with a tower reaching the sky

If, as one people with one language for all, this is how they have begun to act, then nothing that they may propose to do will be out of their reach.

When you are building a tech startup one of the first decisions you have is what language should we code in. Engineers can and have spent hours on deciding what language to code in. (R vs Python for Data Science is a common fight). Being able to talk with team members in one language has a multiplier effect for efficiency. Don’t only consider the bottleneck of the technical language but the social language as well. This generation all spoke the same language, and with that, a great tower was created before being the project was abandoned due to the disunity of the people being broken out to different languages.