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I'm 23.

I don't like people my age, including myself.

I'm 29. It doesn't change. I've no problem with the average 29-year-old (or the average 23-year-old) but the types of people who do well, young, in VC-istan are pretty irritating.

The types who do well at older ages aren't much better.

For people, I prefer Wall Street. No, I'm not kidding. The work isn't as interesting, but the people are more decent.

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Have been reading your comments for a while now, I honestly thought you were in your 40s.

Ha! Is that a good thing, or bad?

This is not the first time I've gotten that.

It's a good thing.

Agree, Michael seems to have a wide experience of working with programmers. I am 31 but I feel he knows more than me about programmers and companies.

Good thing! You sound much more experienced for someone your age. But then I am only 26 myself!

Having also read your comments for a while, I keep seeing your use of the term VC-istan. I can guess what you might wish to convey with that, but perhaps you could explain in your own words what you mean by that? (My apologies if I missed a previous explanation.)

He's referring to the fact that Silicon Valley these days operates as a company town of the VC's and BigCo's of tech. You can see it when people from the Bay Area who don't work in anything connected to the tech sector talk about their area: "You can only live here if you belong to the Tech Master Race", and so on.

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