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>and to defend their inexperience, hire under experienced teams

It's also a bit of "I like you because you're like me" thing plus some "it's useful to me that you're like that".

I've seen plenty of startups where the CEO/CTO has been trained to fit under one specific stereotype (common ones these days are: the asian twink, the athlete, the nootropics guy, etc.), and then lots of their friends/hires happen to be of the same or adjacent/compatible stereotypes.