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It's interesting how many of these 15-25 year enterprise veterans actually want to entangle their career paths with young and "hip" startups? I'm sure some do, but I'd guess a low percentage. Obviously, it would be different if some of these veterans are the ones founding the startup. I'd also guess that in some niche fields, such as security, poaching of enterprise veterans is happening much more than the more "sexy" fields.

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A 15 year veteran would surprise you on that? Assuming college in the US, that person is probably 37 years old. I'm not ripping you or anything, that just surprises me a little because it's my age bracket.

Then again, you hit it with the other point. I'm much more likely to found my own startup than work at someone else's, but a sufficiently disruptive fintech/insurtech/analytics play would totally have my attention. I think the bigger issue is that the right role for me would be something a founder would likely fill, so I'm probably more likely to talk about co-founding something than being an early employee.

Well shit, I'm old!

In my experience it's not a high percentage, but enough numbers overall to see some enterprise veteran discrimination. It's often diagnosed as ageism, though I don't think that's the case as I do see several 40-50 somethings with more diverse backgrounds landing in startups without issue.

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