> Data backing that claim? There’s a ton of very talented people who don’t want to start their own business, don’t want to be a peon in a large corp and join so

> Data backing that claim? There’s a ton of very talented people who don’t want to start their own business, don’t want to be a peon in a large corp and join solid startups instead. Come on Well, the entire thing is anecdotal because I haven't conducted any research. But what I can tell you is that when I was in my 20s I hired some very talented people in their 20s. We are now all in our 40s, and none of us are available for hire by the type of person I was in my 20s. To the extent that we (ie. myself and those with whom I worked) are more skilled and experienced now than we were in our 20s, and to the extent that this career trajectory can be generalised at least enough to make it quite difficult to hire people more skilled and experienced than you are I stand by the claim. Yes there are outliers, but I posit those to be the exceptions that prove the rule.