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I think you're right. From the article, as one of the reasons YC is unsuitable for women: > "Vivek Wadhwa has done research to show that the average entreprene
by wzdd 16y ago
I think you're right. From the article, as one of the reasons YC is unsuitable for women:
> "Vivek Wadhwa has done research to show that the average entrepreneur is 35 and has 1.2 children. I don’t know many adults with children that will relocate to an incubator with the Y Combinator model. Society doesn’t support that yet, so that women can up and move for three months."
I get the feeling that the average YC founder is a little younger than this. Oddly, so does the article:
> [YC is] pretty much a den of 22-year-old guys who dropped out of Stanford with dreams of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg
Given that the article apparently contradicts itself internally, it's difficult to discover what exactly is anti-women about the YC model.
- simonw 16y agoFrom http://ycombinator.com/faq.html http://ycombinator.com/faq.html the average age of a YC Founder is 26. I wouldn't be surprised if that age has gone up a bit since the FAQ was written, certainly the Winter 2011 class feels like there's a healthy range of ages.