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O'Brien: Age bias and Silicon Valley
- bootload 17y ago"... During a reception at the Computer History Museum, Sloan Dean David Schmittlein was interviewing Douglas Leone, a partner at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and Sloan alum. Leone was dispensing advice about entrepreneurism when he let slip a remark that made me do a double take. Leone told the audience that Sequoia focuses on younger entrepreneurs because people over 30 aren't innovative. As a consolation prize, Leone said that the over-30 crowd could still make decent managers. ..." It's always interesting to see what those throttling VC money actually did in "their prime". In this case it's sales at HP ~ http://www.crunchbase.com/person/douglas-leone http://www.crunchbase.com/person/douglas-leone