"This is one reason I'd bet on the 25 year old over the 32 year old."
"By 38 you can't take so many risks-- especially if you have kids"
I would be wary approaching an organization that has publicly expressed such age discrimination.
"By 38 you can't take so many risks-- especially if you have kids" is a statement of fact.
"This is one reason I'd bet on the 25 year old over the 32 year old." is a reasonable conclusion.
Calling this age discrimination is like saying all employers are evil because they discriminate based on having or not having skills required for a job.
In more modern times a more apt comparison would be with respect to pregnant women. Suppose he'd written instead "This is one reason I'd take the childless, single 25 year old woman over the married 32 year old. By 33 she'll probably be pregnant or have a baby."
That's very clearly discrimination, and very clearly in the negative-connotation sense.
For similar reasons, PG's statements re: age are very clearly "negative-connotation" age discrimination. Moreover, there's nothing particularly "sober" or even "rational" about it, considering the heaps of evidence regarding age and people who are very successful in running businesses (hint: "young" isn't exactly a word that comes to mind).