How young are you?
Two weeks ago i had the pleasure to attend Guy Kawasaki’s Revenue Bootcamp.
While the panels were interesting and contributory, I was quite bothered after hearing a tiny, almost subtle, comment from Sequoia Capital’s Michael Moritz. Kawasaki was asking Moritz and Paul Graham of Ycombinator what do they see as the preferred age for an entrepreneur that comes to them with request for funds. While Graham didn’t provide a clear cut answer, Moritz was rather straight and to the point stating that he would prefer entrepreneurs who are 25-30 of age, since “Mozart died at the age of 35…”
This led me to believe that I, at the progressive age of 36, am already out of the game, so it’s either that I am lagging very far behind everybody else or I should be happy to still be alive…
Do you think there should be a correlation between the age of the entrepreneur to her “attractiveness level” in the eyes of potential investors?
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