Thanks, TechCrunch! While most publications put together a “40 under 40” list, TechCrunch decided to take on the myth that only young people innovate. Here’s their 40 OVER 40 list of SV digerati.
Frank Barbieri, who put together the list with Sarah Buhr, wrote a thoughtful post explaining why he felt it was time for such a list to be created.
“The myth of older founders is pernicious: too comfortable, they don’t think big enough, not hungry enough, etc. Elon Musk doesn’t think big enough? Hadi Partovi is resting on his laurels with the founding of code.org? Where does the correlation of age to the myth of The Valley hero/heroine come from? One of the very founders of Silicon Valley itself Robert Noyce founded Intel when he was 41.”
In a related side note, Twitter is currently being sued for age discrimination (lawsuit filed last week). Here’s the story from SF Weekly.