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There is an age bias, but it's a natural result of young founders having more disposable time and energy. They can also keep trying to be successful for more ye
by brianmcdonough 13y ago
There is an age bias, but it's a natural result of young founders having more disposable time and energy. They can also keep trying to be successful for more years as they have more years to work with.
If you look at the most successful startup companies' founders, many of them are kids who were already wealthy via their parents and had more resources to begin with. Not all, but many. Who goes to Harvard and Stanford after all?
- ojbyrne 13y agoExcept that shows a bias for typical family values, by assuming that older people may have wife (or husband), kids, mortgages, etc, when they may not. If you're going to screen for "disposable time" then screen for "disposable time." And "energy" is just straight up bias.
- brianmcdonough 13y agoFrom Yale News: "the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and fire less robustly than in youthful ones." http://news.yale.edu/2011/07/27/yale-researchers-show-how-memory-lost-and-found-0 http://news.yale.edu/2011/07/27/yale-researchers-show-how-me... It's hard to argue with science...
- ojbyrne 13y agohttp://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 In fact, science is all about argument.