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As I've gotten older, one thing I've learned is that some thoughts are best kept to yourself (or those you trust), even if they are true. :) Publicly suggesti
by paul 20y ago
As I've gotten older, one thing I've learned is that some thoughts are best kept to yourself (or those you trust), even if they are true. :)
Publicly suggesting that you hire based on age isn't especially brilliant.
In Mark's defense, I thought that he might really be trying to say that younger people are systematically undervalued, and so hiring them is a bargain. (the market has under-priced their work) Of course I'm sure that others think that the opposite is true and that older people are under-priced. Obviously those people should hire the under-priced old people and build a competing social network. :)
- far33d 20y agoI agree. Being a few years older than mark, I actually didn't find myself offended by his comments. Just as PG said that adulthood is a stage, not an age, I took mark's comments (though quite less elegant), to mean that there's a mindset of youth that helps in starting companies: simple life, willingness to take risks, lack of corruption of the complacency of the workplace, etc. Maybe I give him too much credit.