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Sure, which means it was probably his last opportunity to be funded. (Also, I'm 29, so I have no personal issue with age discrimination-- yet. But it will becom
by michaelochurch 14y ago
Sure, which means it was probably his last opportunity to be funded. (Also, I'm 29, so I have no personal issue with age discrimination-- yet. But it will become "our issue" for all of us, and I recognize the time pressure that it injects into all stages of the career game as unhealthy.)
Outside of VC-istan, the idea that you face inexorable career decline in your 50s would seem bizarre, brutal, and unreasonable.
- richardjordan 14y agoMaybe. But most entrepreneurs live inside VC-istan. So what happens in the fields of elysium doesn't really matter to us :-/ Sad to say, as someone who just recently passed 40 and is definitely feeling the agism of Silicon Valley up close and personal.
- 23david 14y agoYou're saying that even if 5 years down the road ecomom had turned into a 5x or 10x return for the investors, he still would have trouble raising money for his next idea?