It interesting because Dan and I are partially heavily motivated by the chip on our shoulder. My father was a mailman and my mother a waitress, etc. Its hard for us to imagine ourselves as "the man" although we pretty clearly are in a prima facie reading of our resumes.
Having said that, I do think their seems to be a much wider variance in the ages and experiences of YC founders than most people think. If I had to guess, the median age for our batch was likely 25/26 with a standard deviation of 3 years. Not 19/20 and I think that's been true for a long time.
There are also a ton of different education backgrounds. I'm not going to lie and say that there aren't a lot of people who went to Harvard and MIT, but there are also people who went to state schools or no college at all.
Having said that, I do think their seems to be a much wider variance in the ages and experiences of YC founders than most people think. If I had to guess, the median age for our batch was likely 25/26 with a standard deviation of 3 years. Not 19/20 and I think that's been true for a long time.
There are also a ton of different education backgrounds. I'm not going to lie and say that there aren't a lot of people who went to Harvard and MIT, but there are also people who went to state schools or no college at all.