Now we know why so many successful startups seem to be founded by people under thirty.

BREAKING NEWS: Older person attempts to seem younger!

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It's not unusual for people to try to seem younger, but this is the first case in my knowledge of a startup founder lying about his age.

Is that you, Captain_Obvious?

This calls for an EMERGENCY MARKETING MEETING:

http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail164.html

lol, great find ;)

"Are you telling me the nightly nacho cheese masks aren't working?"

If the audience is shallow enough to like a site more based on the founder's age, it's only fitting that he should lie about it. Caesar's to Caesar.

Again, it's a trust thing. Communities are based entirely upon trust, and no one wants to trust an old geezer.

Plus, it probably helped him pick up the ladies.

Yeah, it's better to trust a liar than a "geezer". What is this, the freaking Cultural Revolution?

P.S. That was something that happened before 1985.

Never trust anybody over 30, man :)

Next: Tom is not the founder of MySpace.

People should read up the history of MySpace.

Just like Omidyar and eBay, where they floated the story about him just wanting to sell his girlfriend's Pez collection or whatever it was that the PR firm dreamed up.

Or YouTube and the dinner party story. Plus it had three co-founders, not two.

I'd lie about my age to for $510 million dollars.

could have sworn it was $580?

Myspace is from LA. If I moved to LA, I'd probably subtract 5 years from my age, too. It's local custom.

F+%$ it. It worked.