top | item 46455607 (no title) et1337 | 1 month ago Didn’t we just have a front page article about the average founder age increasing well beyond 30 this year? Is it a non-normal distribution or what? discuss order hn newest bix6|1 month ago Tunguz shows early 40s as the medianhttps://tomtunguz.com/founder-age-median-trend/YC trends younger given what they’re looking for InitialLastName|1 month ago Lots of explanations with power here:- There's a hard edge to the distribution that isn't far from 24 (I'd expect relatively few sub-18-year-old YC founders, but more 31+-year-olds)- Older founders (with more experience, larger networks and less life flexibility) aren't a good fit for incubators.
bix6|1 month ago Tunguz shows early 40s as the medianhttps://tomtunguz.com/founder-age-median-trend/YC trends younger given what they’re looking for
InitialLastName|1 month ago Lots of explanations with power here:- There's a hard edge to the distribution that isn't far from 24 (I'd expect relatively few sub-18-year-old YC founders, but more 31+-year-olds)- Older founders (with more experience, larger networks and less life flexibility) aren't a good fit for incubators.
bix6|1 month ago
https://tomtunguz.com/founder-age-median-trend/
YC trends younger given what they’re looking for
InitialLastName|1 month ago
- There's a hard edge to the distribution that isn't far from 24 (I'd expect relatively few sub-18-year-old YC founders, but more 31+-year-olds)
- Older founders (with more experience, larger networks and less life flexibility) aren't a good fit for incubators.