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Re:Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias by LastManStanding on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @05:31PM (#4839590)
I am not making any accusations against anyone - it is obvious that Paul Graham has an age bias - he says so all over the place, but there is no law against having a bias. Age discrimination is almost impossible to prove, but if it is being used in the decisions of who gets into Y-Combinator someone should look into it.
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Re:Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias by jiggy2011 on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @06:25PM (#4839922)
where has he said he has an age bias?
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Re:Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias by LastManStanding on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @06:41PM (#4840003)
He does.
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Re:Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias by jiggy2011 on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @07:16PM (#4840145)
Has he said so in an essay? On a HN post? To YC founders in person?
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Re:Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias by LastManStanding on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @08:03PM (#4840341)
See comment above. There was another interview or blog post where he talked about his preference for young people more extensively, but I can't find it. Do you happen to know how many people over 50 have been accepted into Y-Combinator?
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Re:Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias by jiggy2011 on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @08:40PM (#4840502)
I wonder how many people over 50 would apply? IIRC the seed capital they provide is probably small enough that a 50 year old would likely have that in their savings and possibly enough contacts/credit rating to get other funding directly.

The closest I could find was this: http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html

But all he really says there is that younger founders have an advantage that they can live on less money.

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Re:Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias by herdrick on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @12:06AM (#4841121)
You're thinking of someone else. Paul has corrected people here several times when they say something like, "I'd like to apply to YC but I'm X years old.". Usually his reply is approximately "We've funded several people ten years older than you.". I think the oldest YC funded founder is 50 something. So far.
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