I've worked in tech since I was very young and I have always had nothing but respect for the older guys. Where do you think I learned from? We are judged on ou

I've worked in tech since I was very young and I have always had nothing but respect for the older guys. Where do you think I learned from? We are judged on our skills and not our age. If that wasn't the case I would immediately submit a YC app to start an IT outsourcing shop that hired only people over forty. I'd take all those hungry underutilized experts and crush the competition! I think the real issue here is precisely that we aren't judging people by their age. In <generic industry> the number of years of experience are the predominate method of determining skill/compensation and that's not necessarily true in tech. So people look at the difference and scream ageism!