Ask HN: Where to find founders in their early 20s?

[saas_man]

I'm 20. Last year I launched a fairly successful SAAS startup. I recently dropped out to work on it full time and moved to NYC. I have friends here but they're all in college and I'd really like to meet people who went down the same path as me in life.

How can I meet other people like me?

[cpach]

In NYC, there ought to be at least one meetup group for startup founders?! I would have a look on https://www.meetup.com/

BTW, did you consider applying to YC? You don’t have to move permanently to SF to join.

[cpach]

PS. Consider listing your contact details in your profile. Otherwise there’s no way to reach you outside of HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28012969

[saas_man]

I definitely go to meetups for programmers and entrepreneurs but everyone there is 30+. Which is fine but I want to be around people my age too

I considered YC but I ended up not needing funding and just bootstrapped it

[smarm52]

Probably any wealthy peoples kids would fit that bill.

[saas_man]

Seems to me like most wealthy parents don't want their kids to drop out of college lol

[codegeek]

"How can I meet other people like me?"

Do you really want to restrict yourself to meeting people in their 20s ? If you expand your horizon a bit, plenty of exciting founders in their 30s,40s or even 50s .

[saas_man]

No not at all and I like meeting all kinds of founders, usually much older ones. I'm just saying it would be nice to meet people who are in the same stage in life as me

[flessner]

Hi, I am 21. First I didn't want to comment as I am not a founder (yet), but I actually had an idea: My university actually runs a rudimentary founders program/startup accelerator for students.

Maybe the institutions near you do the same, I am sure your input would be invaluable there and also the (future) founders would be right in your age range.

[zarathustra333]

NYC based and would love to connect! https://ellispinsky.com/

[saas_man]

Good to connect

[hiAndrewQuinn]

You're on a rare vector, no doubt about it. It'll be tough.

You can try milling about various startup accelerators, I guess. You might find a few who did what you did, and they tend to have a younger crowd.

[saas_man]

Not a bad idea. I'm bootstrapped so that makes it a little harder considering those places are mostly interested in equity but a couple introductions wouldn't hurt

[noashavit]

Meetups, happy hours around conferences and events, and lean our your VC contacts they should have their own events/dinners, and can intro you to like minded founders regardless

[mrbirddev]

This is what I do when I was an undergrad. I used alumni startup products and went their meetups so I got to know the founders in person.

[whateverevetahw]

Discord

[saas_man]

You know any servers?

[rd]

College

[saas_man]

I meant more like people who dropped out for their startups