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A comment that I think is relevant in a community of startups that often, explicitly or de-facto practice age discrimination: This engineer is 94 years old. F
by rebootthesystem 10y ago
A comment that I think is relevant in a community of startups that often, explicitly or de-facto practice age discrimination:
This engineer is 94 years old. Few, if any, SCV startups would have hired him. Yet, here we are, he might have just developed the key technology to push electric transportation through the hockey stick curve past the inflection point.
Three times the energy density, many times more cycles, no shorting, high charge and discharge rates. Yeah, this is more than just about laptops and cars, this is about planes, boats, trucks and ships.
Think about that before you reject a 50+ year old. Experience has real value.
- slantedview 10y agoThis 10000 times.
- mikekchar 10y agoI don't want to take anything away from Dr. Goodenough, but there is a slight caveat with respect to academia. Older, established, and respected researchers are able to attract large teams of of highly talented people. They are also able to secure funding. It is usual that this leader is given top billing on all papers and press interactions, even if they are mostly coordinating the work. This is good for everybody because the lab can continue to attract good talent and especially it can attract funding. Brilliant young researchers working by themselves in obscurity can't really make much headway because they have neither the man power, nor the money to tackle big problems. So, while I agree with you in principle, older researchers offer more in academia than just their experience.
- sndean 10y ago> This engineer is 94 years old. Few, if any, SCV startups would have hired him. Possibly more relevant than what he's doing now, at 94: As far as I can tell, his main breakthrough that led to the Li-Ion battery was in 1979, when he was 57 (?).