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Re: Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012

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Post by mbesto »

eranation wrote: post #75

As someone 35 years old, I wonder - how many successful co-founders are there between 30-40? are there any statistics on that? What is the histogram by age for top 1000 startups? (any metric marking what "top" means will do) And congratulations by the way to all the people on the list, instead of hurting my ego and discouraging me, I see this as a way to motivate me to make it to a 40 under 40 list (I'm sure there is…

how many successful co-founders

If you want to get into metrics, it'd help to define what you would consider successful. I'd think you'd do a disservice by conducting such a study.

Re: Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012

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Post by jkn »

pg wrote: post #88
michaelochurch wrote: post #44

This thread has made me think less of Hacker News. All of it. The hate posts were pretty petty, but the fawning is pretty gross as well. We wonder why there's so much ageism. It's because age obsessions stem from this "cool list" narcissistic nonsense. But this is a prejudice all of us will face, because we're all (well, almost all, and with luck) going to be old some day. The sign of maturity is to see something lik…

The sign of maturity is to see something like this, neither be impressed nor upset/resentful, and just move on. If that's what you think, why didn't you?

From OP's comment: I didn't even read the list and have no idea who's on it

He might not be interested in Forbes' list, but care about the reaction from the HN community. I see no contradiction.

Re: Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012

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Post by paganel »

dotBen wrote: post #76

Just remember this list is not based on meritocracy, most/all these people will have publicists and/or their startups will have "good" PR firm representation. If you secretly wish you were on this list but don't have the above then you are doing it wrong.

> Just remember this list is not based on meritocracy, most/all these people will have publicists and/or their startups will have "good" PR firm representation

Yeah, somehow even I, a guy who has never been to the Staets, could figure that out only by reading the "Arts" section. Almost all of the people there were New-York-based or from around the area, it's like 2010s New York it's like Paris from 1920s full of bright artists and what have you, which I get the impression it's not true. Too bad for the arts, a pretty sweet deal for people making money out of it.

Re: Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012

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Post by paganel »

pg wrote: post #88
michaelochurch wrote: post #44

This thread has made me think less of Hacker News. All of it. The hate posts were pretty petty, but the fawning is pretty gross as well. We wonder why there's so much ageism. It's because age obsessions stem from this "cool list" narcissistic nonsense. But this is a prejudice all of us will face, because we're all (well, almost all, and with luck) going to be old some day. The sign of maturity is to see something lik…

The sign of maturity is to see something like this, neither be impressed nor upset/resentful, and just move on. If that's what you think, why didn't you?

He just wrote down his impressions, nothing wrong with that. Or we can turn this into a YT-circlejerk.

Re: Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012

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Post by pg »

edanm wrote: post #90
pg wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sign of maturity is to see something like this, neither be impressed nor upset/resentful, and just move on. If that's what you think, why didn't you?

Do you consider these lists interesting? Are you happy when you see YC names in this article?

Sure. I learned a bunch of things I didn't know. I had no idea Spotify's valuation was so high, for example, and I didn't know people were using location in cryptography.

And sure, I'm happy to see YC alumni in the list. It's nice for them to get some recognition.

Re: Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012

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Post by pg »

jkn wrote: post #92
pg wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sign of maturity is to see something like this, neither be impressed nor upset/resentful, and just move on. If that's what you think, why didn't you?

From OP's comment: I didn't even read the list and have no idea who's on it He might not be interested in Forbes' list, but care about the reaction from the HN community. I see no contradiction.

From OP's comment: It's because age obsessions stem from this "cool list" narcissistic nonsense.

Re: Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012

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Post by pdog »

michaelochurch wrote: post #69
pdog wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the most part, it's a list of some pretty impressive young people doing some pretty impressive things. You don't have to shit all over it in this thread because you're butthurt.

Not "butthurt". (People still use that phrase?) Not even in a startup, so out of contention anyway. My point is that we should be excited about those impressive things, not some list that was compiled.

List shows us those impressive thing?
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