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I think you're looking at this wrong. It's not that a startup chooses between young/inexperienced/cheap vs old/experienced/expensive. It's that a startup doesn'

I think you're looking at this wrong. It's not that a startup chooses between young/inexperienced/cheap vs old/experienced/expensive. It's that a startup doesn't get to choose because startup life is brutal. It basically requires you to have no family and kids, so only young single people are willing to do it.

Retric 9y ago
Being 40+ does not prevent you from being single. Further, long hours and lack of skill are related. I am not saying you would always rather have say ~35 hours a week from John Carmack vs. 80 hour weeks from 2 or 3 awesome 22 year olds, but adding 22 year olds also scales poorly.
ubernostrum 9y ago
No, VCs have told you that "startup life" requires this, and you willingly believed them without question. It is possible to start a company without turning the first 10 employees into desiccated husks. It's just not possible to do that while also doing what your VCs think is necessary. Maybe that's a thing to work on changing...