over50

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by over50 5y ago
> I agree with OP's point on the inherant age discrimination within technology, I say this because I was once a biased younger human who didn't have the life experience to understand the other side. Thanks. Most people never s
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by over50 5y ago
A friend of mine, my age, had problem landing interviews. When he did the an uncomfortable pattern emerged. He did very well until the video interview. After that, crickets, no calls at all. In one case he had no less than five phone (n
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by over50 5y ago
And no part of that implies any emotion or sentiment at all. What you are reading into is is your own bias. It almost like a title:subtitle structure. You read the content to understand it. The title simply says something like "I am
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by over50 5y ago
> They generally give feedback on your application That has not been my experience. I can't find the email right now. If I remember correctly it had some boilerplate about to the effect that they can't give feedback on every
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by over50 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I added the email to the about box. BTW, I sent you a connection request on LinkedIn.
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by over50 5y ago
> Just to be clear, users flagged it, not moderators. I understand this. In this case "they" did not mean YC. Maybe I should have clarified.
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by over50 5y ago
To jump in for a second as the OP. What is also interesting about me is that I do not need a single dime from YC. I value their input enough that I would easily give 7% for a $1 investment. Part of being where I am is that I have secured
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by over50 5y ago
That's it, kind of. I would say "Done thinking YC is the right fit for me" could be more accurate. Of course, now they've flagged the thread, so not sure if any of this discussion matters. Instead of cancelling the disc
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by over50 5y ago
Older engineers are far less likely to be able to team-up with college buddies to go off into startup-land. Most everyone I know can't drop everything they are doing, their families and responsibilities to launch a startup. Entreprene
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by over50 5y ago
Pretty interesting that a YC person would come out and label this "indignation + sensationalism". It is neither. It's someone (me) sharing an experience and a personal decision while --if you actually read my post-- praising
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by over50 5y ago
My resume scares and likely confuses most people. Most EE's with 30 years of experience have been EE's their entire career. I hired a guy once out of Intel who had, at the time, devoted ten years to designing nothing but power s
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by over50 5y ago
I just did. I will only reply to messages if it seems a conversation is warranted. I've had the experience on HN and other groups of someone contacting you with something that looks interesting only to identify you and then go away.
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by over50 5y ago
> You've got YC one-itis. There are a zillion other places to raise money. Any one funding source says no 98% of the time, it has nothing to do with you. I don't think you read my post. Or, if you did, you didn't understa
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by over50 5y ago
I don't need cofounders. Anyone who is married knows just how tough that can be. The primary reason for which cofounders are useful with a young team is because entrepreneurship is horribly difficult and 20-somethings are not necessar
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Done with YC: Age Discrimination
288 points by over50 5y ago|130 comments