I think this analysis is a little unfair. It may be true that pg wasn't really saying anything new. That doesn't mean that it wasn't worth writing about, howeve

I think this analysis is a little unfair. It may be true that pg wasn't really saying anything new. That doesn't mean that it wasn't worth writing about, however, because it is one of those lessons that seems to continually go unlearned. I don't believe his allusion to the inverse correlation between the age of founders and the likelihood of big successes is entirely unfair, either. Of course there are exceptions, but in general I've noticed that as my friends grow older, they have become more risk averse. They seems to be much more likely to talk themselves out of pursuing big ideas by enumerating all of the ways in which they might fail. Having said that, I think there's a lot of value in older founders who can use their experience and judgement, but are still willing to adopt a "damn the torpedos, full speed ahead" attitude when they realize that a lot of hard, boring work lies between them and their goal.