YC is explicitly oriented toward circumstances which have the highest potential to yield huge upside, and will naturally fund companies that fall into those tre

YC is explicitly oriented toward circumstances which have the highest potential to yield huge upside, and will naturally fund companies that fall into those trends. It seems prima facie obvious that they would not deliberately avoid investing in a group that was likely to outperform. Who knows? Maybe it's the case that people who put in family-unfriendly hours and live on impossibly low amounts of money are those most likely to survive the rollercoaster of a venture backed startup. On balance, younger founders who have low personal burn / high free time may be better suited to the lifestyle demands. I'm saying this as a 28 year old, married, solo founder with kids, so this is clearly not always true. However, distributed across 1000's of YC founders and hundreds of startups it's hardly surprising to find a lower age trend.