actual feedback from a potential investor today:

"you're too old. old people focus on building real businesses. younger people build friendtech and make millions with nothing"

fml

you: has a family that depends on him, quits job/bears significant opportunity costs/takes enormous risk to start a startup, rapidly launches and iterates on product, hustles to find users and pmf

24yr old college grad: accepts job at meta, earns $200k+/yr, turns down startup offer

them: ur too old

🤡🤡🤡

Or:

you: has a family that depends on him, quits job/bears significant opportunity costs/takes enormous risk to start a startup etc

24yr old college grad: lives with parents who cook, clean and pay all the bills so that their kid can work on their startup 

them: ur too old

🤡🤡🤡