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>> There's more value in educating and pumping enthusiasm into a 16 year Why is there more value? What if the 50 year old is an accomplished artist, or a 50 year old doctor or other types of experience. BTW, thanks for validating the age discrimination.

What happens to these 16 year olds when they get to be 30, 40, 50. Do they think they are no longer able to start new things or they are less valuable? Because this is the message we are sending.

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No, it is not- read the parent comments. The message we are sending is that 50 year olds have had ample opportunity to do something impressive whereas we expect far less of 16 year olds.

If they haven't "made it" by middle age, hopefully they have found a stable life situation and aren't playing startup roulette anymore.

Nobody is saying you can't start new things. I'm saying the game is creating new experiences on hardware that didn't exist a year ago for, usually, a demographic of people under 30. Trying to break into that world as a nobody outside of that demographic and life experience is a long shot. Not impossible, but energies are better spent fueling people who have an actual chance at changing the world (and an entire lifetime ahead of them to do it).

It's disappointing that you think the game is only about software for people under 30. There's so much more to entrepreneurship, but you're blinded by media attention and low hanging fruit.

I don't mind the age box. The box you've got around where and when people should be, that's a problem.

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