It's interesting to see relatively objective data come out about startups lately and challenge the startup exceptionalism arguments. Such as: founders must be y

It's interesting to see relatively objective data come out about startups lately and challenge the startup exceptionalism arguments. Such as: founders must be young and unattached, companies must take VC to be big, you can tell at the seed stage which bets will pan out and working all the time correlates well with output. What impact would it have on startups, if those things were in fact untrue?