It's not cognitive dissonance for two groups of people to have different goals, and ways to reach those goals. Fresh young startup CEOs only hire other young p

It's not cognitive dissonance for two groups of people to have different goals, and ways to reach those goals. Fresh young startup CEOs only hire other young people because they're more interested in getting paid to play Xbox than they are in actually getting work done. The goal isn't to make money, it's to make friends and network. Programmers don't need 20 years of experience to write a shopping cart in Rails. The companies who actually solve hard problems are still hiring anyone they can get their hands on, regardless of age, because if HR's willing to spring for an extra $100k a year they can hire the co-inventor of TCP instead of a new grad who wrote their first client-server app a month ago.