Ask HN: Stories of non-typical hackers?

I love reading about the startup community and all of the interesting hacks and aspiring to one day do something similar. However I feel like a lot of the stuff I read about is about hackers who have been programming since high school or younger who wizz through college/university and accomplish so much by the time they are 21. Anyone know of some stories about people who did some novel hack/launched some cool startup/did something-hacker-news-worthy who didn't take up programming until post-secondary or didn't launch anything 'cool' until later in life? Someone who coasted or just ran the rat race until they broke out and started doing novel things?