surprising trend: for years it felt like a substantial fraction of the most impressive tech founders were under 28 or so. in the past few years, very few of them are. what changed?

Sep 17, 2022 · 8:48 PM UTC

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(i think crypto is part of the story, but definitely not all of it)
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You wrote this because Palmer Luckey turns 30 tomorrow, didn’t you?
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We are changing that with @OmniverseLab nitter.vloup.ch/omniverselab/sta…
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Easy wins are gone, IMO. You need industry insight to build something that fits a niche. Companies are being started that look more like Salesforce and less like Facebook. Lots of B2B.
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What changed?? Sociopolitical pressures to intentionally create a generation of miserable Nihilists that would rather own nothing in an effort to escape shame/guilt 🤷‍♂️
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You can’t just move fast and break everything.
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they got crypto rich and retired
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Waning bias by capital allocators towards those who match the Zuckerberg archetype
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I think very high tech salaries are stealing founders right out of uni
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much of the low-hanging fruit has been eaten
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Web 2 was a tech stack that finally worked: you could build companies on the Internet for real. Young founders knew that stack best then. Now we’re older and others have inherited an ecosystem that is more reliable to build companies on.
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