There are a lot of badass older programmers in Real Technology, but VC-istan does seem to be a young man's game. It's not that these people think older program

There are a lot of badass older programmers in Real Technology, but VC-istan does seem to be a young man's game. It's not that these people think older programmers are incompetent. A few of them do, but mostly, it's just brutal age-grading of peoples' careers. If you're a 45-year-old non-manager (never mind that you might not want to be a manager) they're afraid to have you around their 22-year-old, Red Bull-drinking brogrammers-- especially if you've done a couple startups and you're still not rich. Then the VC-istani founders definitely don't want you around because you might indicate to them that billion-dollar exits don't happen just because you're a nice guy.