Poll: How old are you?

#1

Post by withoutfriction » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

Four years ago [1], two years ago [2], and today.

Tomorrow I'd love to poll on where in the world.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039

[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175588

FYI: for anyone in the 13-18ish category, if you are interested in a startup mentor (or a technical one w/ rails/node.js/meteor.js) I'm working with a few people at Stanford willing to take on mentees. Shoot me an email (hn@withoutfriction.com)

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#2

Post by acheron » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:04 PM UTC

My birthday was last weekend and you set the categories so that I just moved up. Thanks. joints creak

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#3

Post by dasil003 » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:04 PM UTC

Whoah, I'm about to make my third category transition while still working for the same startup.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#4

Post by djKianoosh » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:05 PM UTC

someone should close the older polls, no?

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#5

Post by tptacek » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:05 PM UTC

We had one of these just three months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#6

Post by mherdeg » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:06 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #5

We had one of these just three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734

And there was a great discussion about whether or not it was a good idea to let people vote twice.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#7

Post by pvnick » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:10 PM UTC

There was an article on here yesterday that said something along the lines of "if you're older than 23 most startups won't even give you the time of day" or some tripe of the sort. I find that to be a negative, untrue stereotype, and it's nice to see the data back up my opinion.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#8

Post by jypepin » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:12 PM UTC

pvnick wrote: post #7

There was an article on here yesterday that said something along the lines of "if you're older than 23 most startups won't even give you the time of day" or some tripe of the sort. I find that to be a negative, untrue stereotype, and it's nice to see the data back up my opinion.

yea it was in the article about why working in a big company http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/33111/7-Reasons-Why-You...

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#9

Post by pvnick » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

jypepin wrote: post #8

pvnick wrote: post #7

There was an article on here yesterday that said something along the lines of "if you're older than 23 most startups won't even give you the time of day" or some tripe of the sort. I find that to be a negative, untrue stereotype, and it's nice to see the data back up my opinion.

yea it was in the article about why working in a big company http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/33111/7-Reasons-Why-You...

Yes, thank you, I didn't feel like digging around for it.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#10

Post by tomphoolery » Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 5:18 PM UTC

jypepin wrote: post #8

pvnick wrote: post #7

There was an article on here yesterday that said something along the lines of "if you're older than 23 most startups won't even give you the time of day" or some tripe of the sort. I find that to be a negative, untrue stereotype, and it's nice to see the data back up my opinion.

yea it was in the article about why working in a big company http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/33111/7-Reasons-Why-You...

What an awfully misinformed article. :(