When It Comes to Age Bias, Tech Companies Don’t Even Bother to Lie
Let's take this in context?  Here's what he said in the interview.<p><i>I have a lot of confidence in young people, and I have a lot of confidence in everyone’s ability to do more than they think they can do. I have very high expectations for people, and I push people to reach even higher.</i><p><i>I take these young kids at HubSpot and I give them huge responsibility. Sometimes they mess it up, but more often than not they get it right. I think, at least in the tech world, gray hair and experience are really overrated. I think my gray hair is overrated.</i><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/business/brian-halligan-chief-of-hubspot-on-the-value-of-naps.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/business/brian-halligan-ch...</a><p>Maybe I'll have a different perspective when I'm older, but this doesn't sound like outrageous age bias to me.  He's saying that these "kids" are capable of more than others give them credit for, and that experience is "really overrated".  That's not the same thing as saying that he won't hire "old" people, or that given an "old" person whom he thinks will perform better than a young person at the same salary, he'd prefer the young person.<p>Maybe this CEO really is biased against older people, but the evidence provided is pretty slim.<p>Reading TFA, the author comes across as pretty entitled.  His argument is that older people are better than younger people, and he's upset that this CEO doesn't get it.<p><i>Over time, most people get better at what they do. They become wiser, calmer, more self-aware. They’ve also put in the 10,000 hours of practice that Malcolm Gladwell says are required to become expert in a skill. Why would companies not want employees who have gained that expertise?</i><p>I dunno why, maybe this CEO is an idiot.  Sounds like a great opportunity to start your own company, hire the people the market is overlooking, and make a fortune.