VC's are probably just crunching the numbers here, no? If 50-year old founders were more likely to succeed, don't you think that we'd see more of them getting f

VC's are probably just crunching the numbers here, no? If 50-year old founders were more likely to succeed, don't you think that we'd see more of them getting funded? My experience is that unlike in finance, a lot of older guys in tech are unfortunately out of date. I'm in my 30s, and it's taken a ton of time/effort for me to even keep up with tech in my area, and I'm hopefully doing a bit better than treading water here. I'm not sure that too many people would want to do that over a 20-30 period, particularly since most tech employers don't encourage their employees to learn new skills. I see a lot of "You know how to do X, so do more of that..." type of stuff. Tech employees need to develop their own learning regimen outside of work to keep up to date. Only the paranoid survive. Always be paranoid that you're out of date. Never stop learning.