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There is a post about a 38 year old becoming CEO in 2012 https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/morton-salt-announces-new...

But he claims to have remained CEO until 2019 https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-herrmann-cfa/




This happened in the late seventies. Nowadays you'd have a hard (though not impossible) time doing it because of federal laws against ageism. However the tech industry seems to get away with it in hiring.




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