“Would you have invested?” Reverse age discrimination.
After reading Fred’s recent post about David Karp, I started to think about how age discrimination often seems to work in reverse.
If you look at the image of the early Microsoft, everyone seems too young to know what they are doing. Obviously, this wasn’t he case. If you look at David, or any of the other young people in the article Fred linked to, you wouldn’t necessarily think they are capable of what they have already accomplished.
At a voice recording session last week, some people from a film crew assumed I was an intern. This happens a lot.
I guess the point of this post is to never judge a person’s achievements or abilities based on their age (or their assumed age). Not all brilliant people are old white haired men, and not all twenty somethings are scatterbrained extras from Jackass.
