> "it's a mistake to start too young"

> "don't start before 23"

Oh Silicon Valley. I've been in tech in the Bay Area for about 5 years now, regularly attending various events and being a part of the community, and most startup founders under 30-35 are ridiculously naive and boring, with very little to show over time. People over 30 with a decade or so of industry and work experience tend to be much more realistic and methodical about what they're doing (I'm 25).

PG is very successful and has some interesting things to say, but it's important to keep in mind that taking advice from someone whose vision of startups in the last 10 years came exclusively from manning YCombinator is going to be deeply biased.

I'm kinda confused. It looked like you are also confirming PG's observation but you ended with a skeptical tone.

Anyway this was interesting to me because most people tend to overly support youngster's into entrepreneurship but this looked more realistic and practical.

> It looked like you are also confirming PG's observation but you ended with a skeptical tone.

Both of these things are necessary on HN if you want to maximize the number of upvotes.

I'm also excited about my first comment with 4 upvotes :P

Agreeing with the principle and disagreeing with the number, I think.

The thing is that the age he gives (23) is so low that it's at odds with the principle, the same way as if I said "kids should wait till they're a bit older to drink alcohol, like after 8 years old" and someone disagreed and said 18 years old is a better age, they wouldn't just be agreeing with the principle and disagreeing with the number.