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Appears to firmly contradict this: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/youll-never-guess-average-age-of-successful-silicon-valley-founders.html https://www.inc

Appears to firmly contradict this: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/youll-never-guess-average-age-of-successful-silicon-valley-founders.html https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/youll-never-guess-avera... Makes me wonder if news agency workers just pull stuff out of their behinds.

adventured 4y ago
I usually drop this list [0] into threads about stories pushing the super young founder myth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18213942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18213942 The only thing particularly interesting about the super young founder myth, is just how drastically off the mark it is. The very few outliers are just that. [0] a big list of founder ages for prominent tech companies
- yrgulation 4y ago
  Thanks for that - bookmarked! Shows there is still a chance ;)
dmitriid 4y ago
Evergreen. How VICE choses stories https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA
- yrgulation 4y ago
  I can only begin to imagine the harm incompetent media does to societies. I am not for censorship but there should be some standards.
desperadovisa 4y ago
Should probably tell people that's from 2018, and the FT article is from today. [0] Unless, of course, you wouldn't want people to know that! (: [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180208022213/https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/youll-never-guess-average-age-of-successful-silicon-valley-founders.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180208022213/https://www.inc.c...
- yrgulation 4y ago
  Yeah because so much changed since 2018 (:
  - chenxi9649 4y ago
    just the biggest event in our human life time :)
    - deleted 4y ago
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    - whimsicalism 4y ago
      How much do you think that has impacted the age of founders? My general assumption is the age would be similar to what it was 4 years ago.
      - desperadovisa 4y ago
        whimsicalism 4y ago
        But what data do you even have backing up your assertion that it is radically different today? The article does not claim that there has been a radical change in the last 4 years or post-covid, so I am not sure where you are getting that from. Not going to keep responding, your comment was unnecessarily adversarial.
        desperadovisa 4y ago
        yrgulation 4y ago
        Welp someones had a rough day or overdosed on coffee.

adventured 4y ago

I usually drop this list [0] into threads about stories pushing the super young founder myth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18213942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18213942 The only thing particularly interesting about the super young founder myth, is just how drastically off the mark it is. The very few outliers are just that. [0] a big list of founder ages for prominent tech companies

yrgulation 4y ago
Thanks for that - bookmarked! Shows there is still a chance ;)

dmitriid 4y ago

Evergreen. How VICE choses stories https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA

yrgulation 4y ago
I can only begin to imagine the harm incompetent media does to societies. I am not for censorship but there should be some standards.

desperadovisa 4y ago

Should probably tell people that's from 2018, and the FT article is from today. [0] Unless, of course, you wouldn't want people to know that! (: [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180208022213/https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/youll-never-guess-average-age-of-successful-silicon-valley-founders.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180208022213/https://www.inc.c...

yrgulation 4y ago
Yeah because so much changed since 2018 (:
- chenxi9649 4y ago
  just the biggest event in our human life time :)
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
  - whimsicalism 4y ago
    How much do you think that has impacted the age of founders? My general assumption is the age would be similar to what it was 4 years ago.
    - desperadovisa 4y ago
      - whimsicalism 4y ago
        But what data do you even have backing up your assertion that it is radically different today? The article does not claim that there has been a radical change in the last 4 years or post-covid, so I am not sure where you are getting that from. Not going to keep responding, your comment was unnecessarily adversarial.
        desperadovisa 4y ago
        yrgulation 4y ago
        Welp someones had a rough day or overdosed on coffee.