But we truly celebrate those who paved the way!
Your Gray Matters celebrates the older people who made this possible. The parents, teachers, professors, mentors, and investors who smoothed the way for them.
However, considering that Brandeis University found that 22% of all patents in the US are filed by people over 50 and Zippia found that 46% of all inventions were created by people over 40, we think that MIT is ignoring a very productive segment of the United States.