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Tech companies are a lot like major-league sports stars in that they often post their best results early in their careers.
Athletes' bodies wear out, and they can compete at the highest levels for only so many years.
With high-tech corporations, however, the challenge isn't age or health. It's that there's always a group of young startups with hot innovations breathing down the Old Guard's necks.
There are chances for late-career renaissances, though. And what aging tech leaders need to achieve this is the business equivalent of a performance-enhancing drug – except legal.
I've uncovered four aging Silicon Valley legends that have found just that in a certain fast-moving part of the tech sector.
And one of them has rediscovered its ace-like prowess – and is making investors hefty gains in the process.
Let me tell you about it…
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Michael A. Robinson is one of the top financial analysts working today. His book "Overdrawn: The Bailout of American Savings" was a prescient look at the anatomy of the nation's S&L crisis, long before the word "bailout" became part of our daily lexicon. He's a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and reporter, lauded by the Columbia Journalism Review for his aggressive style. His 30-year track record as a leading tech analyst has garnered him rave reviews, too. Today he is the editor of the monthly tech investing newsletter Nova-X Report as well as Radical Technology Profits, where he covers truly radical technologies – ones that have the power to sweep across the globe and change the very fabric of our lives – and profit opportunities they give rise to. He also explores "what's next" in the tech investing world at Strategic Tech Investor.