"When a company called PayScale recently surveyed the country’s 32 most successful tech companies, it found that just six of them had a median age over 35. (The median age at Facebook, Google, Zynga, AOL, and Zynga was 30 years or younger.) By contrast, the median age for all workers in the U.S. economy is 42 years."<p>Given that such an article is going to be dominated by anecdotes (which are interesting and sometimes entertaining, but very seldom illuminating broader trends. People often think whatever lot they are in is universal, and that what misfortunes or difficulties they face are always unfair externals), I looked for data and this was the best it had. It's a pretty common proof.<p>Only the 32 most successful tech companies have gone through generally <i>enormous</i> expansion. Most of them draw primarily from new grads, not least because such recruiting is easy: New grads are available, and are willing to relocate wherever you want them. Established workers are less likely to be interested, and often dramatically less likely to want to relocate.<p>If you simply polled tech workers across the US who were willing to relocate any distance, much less thousands of miles, the average age would similarly be very low.<p>I'm surprised the age difference wasn't much larger, to be honest.