A few months back, I wrote about Peggy Johnson taking over as the CEO of Agility Robotics, a Corvallis-area startup working on creating a bipedal robot for warehouse environments. Today, I caught an MSNBC profile piece where she shares why she sees her age — she’s 62 — as an asset.
As far as Johnson is concerned, her age is her greatest asset. “I have this plethora of experiences that one has built on the other, that’s built on the other, through several companies and I couldn’t have done that in a compacted amount of time,” Johnson told ForbesWomen editor, Maggie McGrath. “I had to live by the way through the highs and lows of different projects and different company cycles — all of that is cumulative to the experience I bring today in my current role — so it’s absolutely an advantage and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
For more, read “This AI chief says being over 50 is her secret weapon. Here’s why.“
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