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The average age of founders is not 25.. I suggest you revisit your assumptions.
by Gibbon 17y ago
The average age of founders is not 25.. I suggest you revisit your assumptions.
- replicatorblog 17y agoYes it is.. I suggest you check your facts. From PG: http://ycombinator.com/faq.html http://ycombinator.com/faq.html What's the average age of people you fund? About 25. A lot of people think it's younger because the press especially like to write about young founders.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoYCs founders are hardly representative of founders as a whole...not many people over the age of 30 are willing or able to put themselves in a position where they can start a company with $20k. http://www.kauffman.org/Details.aspx?id=1784 http://www.kauffman.org/Details.aspx?id=1784
- replicatorblog 17y agoOf course, but this thread is in relation to the founders at YC and the VC's who speak to them. There are a great many founders of all ages, but they aren't the focus on this article.
- TriinT 17y agoGordon Moore was 39 years old when he co-founded Intel, for example. Script kiddies these days.... they think all it takes is knowing how to write code. Oh, the arrogance of youth...