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His comment about the 'YC demographic' not having any insight to the pains in business is both lame and in my experience quite inaccurate. Just because they're not in the stereotypical age bracket does not mean you should discount them off hand. It's just arrogant.

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It's arrogant to a point but there is a reasonable argument in there. I'm 30, I've worked in my fair share of large companies and startups, and I can see the pain points many large companies have the startups frankly don't.

If you're 21 and just graduated or mid-20s and only worked in startups, frankly, you are not going to be aware of many of the pain points big companies face that startups just never have to deal with.

They may not have the same experience but the point he was making was that they are almost obsessed with trivial fleeting trends. In my experience of people, that is not the case.

It's a pretty ironic comment for those of us who remember the Box guys in their early days.

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