Ageism is alive and well in our industry. People need to learn the difference between fluid intelligence and crystalized intelligence. People need to hear that startup success is maximal when the founders are older, not younger. VCs chasing youth are statistics deniers.
For building a successful business, older founders are more likely to succeed. They understand the business and see something that everybody else is getting wrong that they can correct and make money on. They will grind at it and have a profitable business for decades.
This is anathema to VCs.
VC's want a short term lottery ticket. They want your business to go big or go home. They would rather see your business fail quickly than grind profitably for a decade. Youth feeds into this in two ways. First, youth can align with the fad of the moment in the hopes of running a cashout while the iron is hot. Second, youth can be bullied into doing stupid things that a more experienced person will flat out tell you are stupid and refuse to do them.
This is the standard misalignment with founders and VCs.
The interesting question is whether experienced people can leverage AI to construct actual new businesses rather than just AI bandwagoning. The fundamental problem is that most successful businesses have to deal with customer service, and AI doesn't do jack to make that better.