FORGET EXPERIENCE, FORGET WISDOM: THE AI BILLIONAIRE CLUB HAS A BRAND NEW PREREQUISITE: YOU MUST BE A CHILD.
Major venture capital firm Antler has revealed a SHOCKING new reality: the average age of an AI unicorn founder has PLUMMETED from 40 to just 29 in the last three years. We are witnessing the systematic PUSHING OUT of seasoned experts by a generation of tech-obsessed TEENAGERS and twenty-somethings who’ve never run a P&L. This isn’t innovation—it’s a recklessly ageist COUP d’état in our most critical industry.
The evidence is DAMNING. 29-year-old Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI, REPLACED AI godfather Yann LeCun, 65, at Meta after a single model underperformed. Meta’s move sent a chilling message: decades of foundational research mean NOTHING compared to the “scrappy,” untested hustle of a MILLENNIAL. The new gold standard? Companies like Mercor, founded by 22-year-olds and valued at over $10 billion, or AnySphere, run by ’20-somethings’ with barely a resume to their names.
Venture capital is now OPENLY ADMITTING that traditional corporate experience “matters less” and can even “backfire.” Fridtjof Berge of Antler stated the quiet part LOUD: the key quality now is the willingness to “move fast and break things.” This is a corporate philosophy built on DESTRUCTION, not construction—a glorification of reckless disruption with our global future at stake. We are handing the keys to artificial intelligence, the single most powerful and dangerous technology in human history, to a cohort whose primary credential is that they “learned recently in [their] training.”
This is not a trend; it is a CULTURAL CANCER. It discards hard-won wisdom, venerates dangerous inexperience, and signals that the only path to power in the new world is to be young enough to have never been responsible for a catastrophic failure. As these “scrappy” founders inevitably burn out or are shoved aside when their companies mature, we are left with a shattered landscape of broken companies and betrayed investors.
The old guard built the world. The new guard is being handed the tools to dismantle it without a second thought.
Author: Kayitsi.com
