it's just not a lot of senior dev or team lead experience. In the traditional world, yes. But what about our wacky tech world where the 22 year old is a found

it's just not a lot of senior dev or team lead experience. In the traditional world, yes. But what about our wacky tech world where the 22 year old is a founder/ceo/manager of the entire company? Are you less experienced and knowledgeable that that person? I agree with your part about not hiring externally for new internal projects though (unless all your other internal projects are horrible and you need new blood to get out of institutional brain damage).