But then I took the opportunity to ask whether anyone in his youth-dominated business ever thought about age diversity. “Do you have enough old people working here?” I asked. His response was instructive: “You mean people over thirty?” Punk. The point is not to find jobs for the elderly; it is to glean the wisdom and experience from people who have seen a lot, have already made every stupid mistake in the book, and can teach the younger folks before they make avoidable errors. Over the last few years, the youth-dominated firms in the tech sector have been battered by scandals and plummeting
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