[jacquesm]

The media emphasizes younger co-founders because it makes for a much better story. Rags to riches before you're 25 sounds so much better than the same before you're 60.

[_delirium]

I think there's also a disproportionate media focus on the really big successes, which do seem to have had pretty young founders: Apple (21 & 25), Microsoft (19), Google (24 & 25), Dell (19), Amazon (30), etc.

[pelemele]

Jobs biggest success came when he was over 45 and honestly, we are not talking here about stuff like break-thru cancer cure, new kind of alternative energy or similar. We still use the same network stack (TCP, 1974), the same web markup language (HTML, 1990) and the same programming languages as our fathers (C++, 1979, PHP, 1995, SQL 1987).

[einhverfr]

Well, we aren't using my grandmother's computer programming language much (Fortran).... Thank goodness ;-) hahahahah

[dgabriel]

Actually, Fortran is pretty widely used in the sciences. If you're working with R, you're probably doing some Fortran stuff, too.