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Cade Museum Co-Founder Phoebe Cade Miles Featured on Forbes’ “50 Over 50” List

GAINESVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cade Museum co-founder and board chair Phoebe Cade Miles has been featured in Forbes’ new “50 Over 50” list of women who have not only made great accomplishments in their careers, but who are creating their greatest achievements after the age of 50.

"My advice for anyone nearing the half-century mark is that your most significant contributions are likely to be ahead of you, not behind you!”

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Forbes recently released the 2025 “50 Over 50” list in conjunction with Mika Brzezinski, the founder of Know Your Value and co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. The list comprises 200 women in four different categories – lifestyle, impact, innovation and investment – and highlights entrepreneurs, innovators and artists who are changing the world, and doing so in the second half of their lives.

Recognized for inspiring and equipping future inventors and visionaries through the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention and the annual Cade Prize for Inventivity competition for early-stage inventors, Miles amplifies her father’s passion for science, the arts, and pursuing big ideas. Best known as the lead inventor of Gatorade, Dr. Robert Cade was a curious Renaissance man who thought, and taught, outside the box. His daughter, Phoebe Cade Miles, aims to inspire and educate the way he did.

Miles is honored to be included in the list because to her, “it celebrates the wisdom that comes with growing older,” she said. Inscribed in the rotunda of the Cade Museum, lines from Tennyson’s Ulysses read:

“I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades... forever when I move.”

For Miles, the poem illustrates that the next great adventure awaits. “Rather than lamenting the passing of youth, I find it more exciting to embrace the experiences that come with each passing year. It is these experiences that provide the broad and deep foundation for all future accomplishments. My advice for anyone nearing the half-century mark is that your most significant contributions are likely to be ahead of you, not behind you!”

For the full list visit: Forbes.com/50over50

About the Cade Museum

The Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, is committed to transforming communities by inspiring and equipping future inventors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries. Named after Dr. James Robert Cade, the lead inventor of Gatorade, the project began in 2006 with a generous gift from Dr. Cade and his wife, Mary Cade. Led by their daughter, Phoebe Cade Miles and her husband, Richard Miles, the museum began educational programming and the Cade Prize in 2010. Since opening in 2018, more than 245,000 visitors have experienced the Cade’s unique hands-on programming. For more information visit cademuseum.org.

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Julie DeCarmine
jdecarmine@cademuseum.org

Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention


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Daughter of Gatorade's lead inventor is honored to make the Forbes 50 Over 50 list and continue her father's legacy of inspiring future visionaries.
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Julie DeCarmine
jdecarmine@cademuseum.org

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