Preference for youth in tech recruiting (aka ageism)

I'm glad someone else noticed this. I actually left a comment on that post which I'll paste here since Disqus and blog comments can be flagged/deleted easily:

I am over 40. In fact, I moved to Silicon Valley when I turned 40. That means I've experienced just over 40 rotations of the Earth around the Sun. I'm looking forward to my new career in celestial mechanics.

I'll pause while you absorb that.

If you are 40 years of age then it is likely you have some number of career accomplishments that can be enumerated and, oh, I dunno... described. However, to simply state you have 10, 11, 13, 20, or more years of experience means little or nothing. "Years of experience" is simply a throw away resume filler on par with 'fresh new ideas un-jaded by years of experience' would be for someone with zero years of experience. i.e. nothing to brag about

Perhaps, focus instead (see also: brag) about career accomplishments that can be enumerated, what you want to accomplish, and who you want to accomplish it with and when.

Lastly, I'm searching for any substance in your post beyond name dropping as a blog post slug, not so thinly veiled personal animosity, and garden variety denigration of women.

She seems to be a relatively inexperienced recruiter (a few short stints at big-name startups) who decided to start her own firm.

Check her site: main.is

It renders horribly on my non-retina desktop display in Chrome, and is unbelievably slow - I guess she really does believe in hiring the inexperienced and puts her money where her mouth is!