I agree, the ideal candidate, particularly for a startup, would have a wealth of knowledge and experience in addition to the drive to challenge themselves and t

I agree, the ideal candidate, particularly for a startup, would have a wealth of knowledge and experience in addition to the drive to challenge themselves and the ability to learn new things. The problem that startups face is that they can't usually hire those people because someone like Google or Facebook is paying them with truckloads of gold. Not always of course, sometimes startups can attract those people and it's great for them. But when they can't they must compromise; and if you have to choose between someone with knowledge and experience, and someone with drive and the ability to learn you're better served in the long run taking the latter. It will require some sacrifice in the beginning to bring them up to speed, but eventually they will overtake the candidate who stands still content with what they already know. The attitude that I see coming through in that post is that they value what people already know more than what people can learn, which I think is backwards. On top of that they just came across sounding like assholes. I could be wrong though, it's hard to read people's intention through text.