I don't think SV is ageist so much as "anti people who were working before the Internet" -- people like Vint Cerf are respected (was on the Internet from early)

I don't think SV is ageist so much as "anti people who were working before the Internet" -- people like Vint Cerf are respected (was on the Internet from early), but the random MBAs who joined/founded startups in the late 1990s with no tech experience were pretty useless.