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No, if anything it's higher. I think the median age increase has more to do with us funding companies in different spaces that require more experience.

If you're starting an Internet company, I'm more convinced than ever that you don't need to finish college.

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> If you're starting an Internet company, I'm more convinced than ever that you don't need to finish college.

For your typical web startup you probably don't need college to learn the technology or the design patterns. But there are certain areas of social science that can be hard to pick up on your own because they are basically oral traditions, and there isn't really an obvious list of books to get on Amazon or whatever. Finishing a degree is still probably overkill though.

In social sciences, the stuff you learn in formal education is less useful. I think the example should be in hard sciences, for example, if you want to start a company building quantum computers, a PhD in physics would be very helpful.

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