Then the under 28s we're the defacto experts in tech. They grew up in the experiment and help mold / create it. Huge leg up on older gens that had to catch up. Now those same "kids" have 10 - 20 years of life + business experience and have been in multiple boom + bust cycles.

digital natives getting older

They grew up :D

Those are the folks who were 28 when there started to be widespread realisation that the greatest opportunities lay in system hacking for disruption, rather than incremental evolution. But having learned that lesson, they didn't then forget it when they turned 40, or even 50.

Among other things, I think as the circle of knowledge gets bigger, it takes more time to go deep enough to reach the edges.

Those under 28 grew up 😅

Time passed

Coding was a skill that almost exclusively young people had, not anymore.

You are getting old, and it makes you blind to the great young founders and shift you focus away from youth toward older founders you missed earlier? So, it’s probably just selective attention? (or do you have data to back that up?)

Entrepreneurship, and founder as calling has been increasingly visible and made attractive over the years already, and I expect that the average age of the founder has been on the up over the years before the crypto boom (data, anyone?)