alt Hacker NewsDidn’t we just have a front page article about the average founder age increasing well beyond 30 this year? Is it a non-normal distribution or what?
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InitialLastName • yesterday at 5:20 PM
Lots of explanations with power here:
- There's a hard edge to the distribution that isn't far from 24 (I'd expect relatively few sub-18-year-old YC founders, but more 31+-year-olds)
- Older founders (with more experience, larger networks and less life flexibility) aren't a good fit for incubators.
Tunguz shows early 40s as the median
https://tomtunguz.com/founder-age-median-trend/
YC trends younger given what they’re looking for