[samstave]

I think that the risk of poor management is something that will be dealt with at any company where your employees are all young; startups have a younger employee base - and you get a lot of people re-inventing the wheel.

There is a lot to be said for the companies, especially in silicon valley, that are large, established and older - they will have a range of good managers.

If you're only out looking for rock-stars, ninjas or other witty adjectives your employee base maybe younger and lacking experience in some of the more esoteric aspects of running a company.

When I was interviewing at Twitter they mentioned they had ton of internal chaos where a lot of the young employees, having had maybe only one prior company as an experience point only had that company's culture for reference - and this was a problem for them.