[jshq111]

When you get a little older your risk profile often changes. You have kids who you hopefully think are far more amazing than work and providing a secure lifestyle for them becomes more important than a potential lottery ticket of super-riches. You probably find it a bit harder to "drink the kool aid" that your tech project - while really really cool - is in fact "changing the world" and deserving of "passion." If you take a big risk in your mid 20s and blow up you have a long lifetime to recover. Past your mid-30s you become more aware that you have less time to recover financially from big setbacks.

As an almost 40 geezer I think it's amazing the startup ecosystem exists for the younger crowd and wish it was more fleshed out when I was at that point in life. But I just have different priorities for myself now.