Not your typical bootstrapping story

This opening story by Matthias Bohlen is fascinating. Not your typical bootstrapping story:

I am 61 years old, a software engineer, and married to a lovely wife. I created my first product at the age of 21 when I was a freelance compiler writer. I studied computer science and during my studies at the university, I began freelancing, developing software for a small company near Karlsruhe, Germany. It was a compiler for the then-revolutionary MC 68000 processor, a totally new series of processors at the time. The IBM PC was not invented yet.

https://gettheaudience.com/e01-the-first-50-days-of-a-startup/

(Nice mention of @arvidkahl in there too)