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> Marketing experiments using technology have driven out actual technology, the latter being too long term to gel with two-week "iterations" Fast iterations an
by SamReidHughes 12y ago
> Marketing experiments using technology have driven out actual technology, the latter being too long term to gel with two-week "iterations"
Fast iterations and "marketing experiments" happen because technology (the Internet) enables that, not because people are culturally different now.
> and an age discrimination culture that (stupidly) discards people just around the time when they start to develop a deep expertise.
Then show us all these age-discriminated people that are out of work.
> People just go to the Bay Area to make money.
No, they go for lots of reasons. The weather, the people (or they'd be in SoCal), the wide variety of jobs to choose from (for developers), and that there are meetups and groups for any imaginable software-related activity is a perk.
> The passive capitalists, above all, want the highest returns on their investment. They'd probably also prefer (as a tie-breaker) that the jobs be created locally (i.e., in Ohio if it's an Ohio state employee pension fund) rather than in California... but if the returns were better in CA, they'd want their money put there.
So, in other words, you're saying they prioritize investing "locally" not at all. They also prioritize investing in companies that start with the letter "Z" (which is a cool letter) just as much. Not sure why you feel the need to mention this imaginary desire of Ohioans (that you made up entirely in your own head). More practically they might want to invest in companies that aren't evil. (There's an actual profit non-maximizing decision you see in reality.)
> VC has become a conveyer belt that sucks up a huge amount of passive capital from all over the country and funnels it into a few people in Northern California.
Are you saying it was different before? If it was, then how so?
- angersock 12y agoThen show us all these age-discriminated people that are out of work. For an imaginary problem it sure has a lot of press: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/us-valley-ageism-idUSBRE8AQ0JK20121127 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/us-valley-ageism-i... http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/01/05/silicon-valley-age-discrimination-if-youve.html?page=all http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/01/05/silicon-v... http://anewdomain.net/2014/12/11/dont-hire-anyone-30-ageism-silicon-valley/ http://anewdomain.net/2014/12/11/dont-hire-anyone-30-ageism-... http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117088/silicons-valleys-brutal-ageism http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117088/silicons-valleys-b...
- SamReidHughes 12y agoHave you ever been involved in hiring people? As an interviewer, or resume filterer, or whatever. Was there an unusually large supply of qualified old people? If systematic, career-limiting age discrimination is putting people out of work in tech, I'd expect a bunch of good older candidates on the job market -- but I didn't see that, at a startup in the bay area and a big company in Boston. Certainly some companies would be nauseating to anybody that isn't a gross manchild, believe me, I feel it! But the articles you link have anecdotes and fallacies, like citing the average age of employees as evidence -- any rapidly growing company will soak up employees that have recently relocated to the area, and they'll be younger.
- angersock 12y agoHey, there's a lot of factors involved--especially in Houston, for example, the age distribution from people fleeing aerospace is skewed. You just asked for numbers and stories, so I found you numbers and stories.