[JoeAltmaier]

To evaluate whether age can be used as a descriminator for those attitudes and behaviors, I suggest you substitute "woman" or "black" and see how that reads.

There are young people who will only use the tools they are comfortable with. Ageism is the mistaken belief that this is somehow associated with your most recent birthday, akin to astrology.

[TheCondor]

I'm not endorsing or accepting discrimination, I simply offered up a meek rationalization as I see it.

Honestly, if you find and older person that wants to work at a startup, there is a good chance that they could be doing a few things right to have that energy and drive. You want to know how they live and what they do.