The points he brings up applies well to 'older' startup founders. It's hard to quantify but that extra life experience does make one better at negotiating, give

The points he brings up applies well to 'older' startup founders. It's hard to quantify but that extra life experience does make one better at negotiating, give more confidence in ones abilities, make you better at BS-detection and so on and so forth. Additionally, you've probably passed through the various stages of being motivated by wanting to impress women, by wanting to gather materialistic wealth (and fast), by wanting to impress your peer-group, older founder is now doing it for more intrinsic reasons which makes for sustainable long-term motivation and commitment. I say this as a 30 y.o guy who's currently learning how to code (previously a product manager at BigCorp) so I can build my own project this year. Sometimes I think to myself I wish I did this earlier but then I realise that the sum of my life experience has put me where I am now.