At a prior gig we stepped up a machine shop and ended up hiring a stinky kid who I thought was someone's homeless brother. Extremely talented, after our program wound down he started his own machine shop and now does multiple millions of dollars of revenue yearly, has staff etc, in his mid 20s now.
He's a special case sure, but if you have business sense you don't have to top out at the high end of the hourly scale.
And Vitalik Buterin was a billionaire before the age of 30 with a CS degree as was Bill Gates and Lebron James was set by the time he was 18. What's the point of talking about outliers?
He's a special case sure, but if you have business sense you don't have to top out at the high end of the hourly scale.