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Silicon Valley thrives on the stereotype of the twenty-two-year-old college dropout building a company in a garage—combining youthful passion and a dose of grit to challenge age-old industries.
The stereotype is the stuff of legend. The storied founders of the world’s most successful tech companies support this trend: Apple (Jobs, twenty-one, Wozniak, twenty-six), Microsoft (Gates, twenty-one), and Facebook (Zuckerberg, twenty).1
Yet prizing youth comes at a cost. Silicon Valley is known for its “tech bros”—the young, behoodied warriors often accused of building products and services to do tasks Mom doesn’t do for them anymore.
This should not come as a surprise. An entrepreneur ...
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