[ci5er]

> they have a mortgage and kids and don't want to eat ramen like they did when they were 22.

Not only that, it's very tiring being an old fart and being told that you don't "get it" by a 27 year old VC who does want to fund an app. Maybe even a dating app. OR being told you don't "get it" by a young Stanford grad that really thinks it would be cool to rebuild an entire 3M patient record data set in MongoDB and access it with something written in Javascript on NodeJS. Fun times.

[beat]

I remember some years ago, talking with a couple of experienced co-workers about a young and frustrated manager we worked with. He was very talented, but also hotheaded. Someone suggested that what he needed was a good death march... without the experience of being expected to do something actually impossible, he just didn't know why we would all drag our feet on things so much.

He's since had a failed startup, which I hope tempered him some. So very talented, but not sufficiently scared.