Putting aside starting your own business, good luck getting into current jobs if you are older. Not only is there age discrimination, but the shady part of that is also they realize they can hire and burn out and then fire the young gullible ones more easily than a sharp and critical older person
Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he stole Facebook.
This is 1000% on the money.
Folks reaching for that brass ring for the last time are often the better investment.
A VC friend
Viet Cong?
There is little to compete with experience. Of course you have to have some smarts to begin with, but some years of training, and learning (a lot from your own mistakes), and trial by error and a desire to succeed give you the best chance. Getting harder though, foreign invasion and cheap employers.
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Tucker Carlson: EP 75:
Mike Benz Interview
Twitter / X ^ | 2/16/24 | Tucker Carlson
https://twitter.com/i/status/1758529993280205039
Excerpt, Google Voice Typed:
Google is a great example of this. Google began as a DARPA grant by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were Stanford PHD’s and they They got their funding as part of a joint CIA NSA program to chart how “birds of a feather flock together online” through search engine aggregation.
And then one year later they launched Google and then became a military contractor quickly. Thereafter they got Google Maps by purchasing a CIA satellite software essentially and the ability to track to use free speech on the Internet as a way to circumvent state control over media over in places like Central Asia or or all around the world was seen as a way to Be able to do what used to be done out of CIA station houses or out of embassies or consulates in a way that that was totally turbocharged.
And all of the Internet free speech technology was initially created by our national security state. VPN’s, virtual private networks to hide your IP address, tour the dark web to be able to buy and trail sell goods anonymously, end to end, encrypted chats. All of these things were created initially as DARPA projects or as joint CIA NSA projects to be able to help Intelligence backed groups to overthrow governments that were causing a problem to the Clinton administration or the Bush administration or the Obama administration.
And this plan worked magically from about 1991 until about 2014 when there began to be an about face on Internet freedom And its utility.
Now, the high watermark of the sort of Internet free speech moment, was the Arab Spring in 2011, 2012, when you had this one by one, all of the adversary governments of the Obama administration, Egypt, Tunisia, all began to be toppled in Facebook revolutions and Twitter revolutions.
And you had the State Department working very closely with the social media companies To be able to keep social media online during those periods. There’s a famous phone call from Google’s Jared Cohen to Twitter to not do their scheduled maintenance. So that this so that the preferred opposition group in Iran would be able to use Twitter to win that election.
So it was an instant, free speech was an instrument of statecraft From the national security state to begin with. All of that architecture, all the NGO’s, the relationships between the tech companies and the national security state had been long established for freedom.
In 2014, after the coup in Ukraine, there was an unexpected counter coup where Crimea and the Donbass broke away.