This is troublesome for me because I'm around that age and obviously not an entrepreneur or CEO, but rather committed to focusing and deepening my software deve

This is troublesome for me because I'm around that age and obviously not an entrepreneur or CEO, but rather committed to focusing and deepening my software development skills when I enter the job market in the coming year. I'm really not sure how much I can learn from people who are the same age or just barely older than me, given that I've been coding since I was 13 and focused exclusively on it, while they may have started coding later and transitioned to splitting their focus between coding and the other aspects of starting a company sooner. I'd much rather work for (and learn from) someone who has been in the software industry for a long time, but wonder if that preference will keep me out of the youngest and most exciting companies.