Terrible argument, and here's why. The only thing being said here is that the number of people (and devices) on the Internet is larger. That's true. However, un

Terrible argument, and here's why. The only thing being said here is that the number of people (and devices) on the Internet is larger. That's true. However, until you turn someone into a paying customer, that's a cost, not profit. Premature eyeballs force premature scaling, which is expensive both in the short and long term. (Even proper scaling is costly and risky, insofar as it requires a management team to hire people with talents it cannot directly measure; improper scaling is even more expensive.) As awful as age discrimination is, the good news (for people currently 25-45, who will be 35-55 in the next boom) is that the trend will probably go the other way when the "social" bubble collapses. Why? Because investors are about to get burned, hard, by a bunch of startups whose founders cared more about being popular than making money. In five years, that will be the age stereotype attached to young founders.