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by Tarucho 1780 days ago
Technology startups have a mandatory narrative of "someone young, cool, smart and with a great idea...".

Anyone past 38 (if I remember correctly PG wrote 38 is the cut off date for founders) is too old for said narrative. (BTW: I´m 43)

Maybe you should game the system and match with a young and cool co-founder that does the PR part.

2 comments

Shoot - I've never been very good at the "cool" part. Wish they taught a class on coolness in school. Would have helped a lot.
Paul Graham didn’t even start Y combinator until he was 41!
This is hilarious.