Investor: surge of exceptional young AI founders likely caught some funds by surprise
pzakin · x · 2026-09-17
pzakin revisits a late-2010s discussion about the decline of breakout companies by young founders, arguing young talent thrives in periods of radical change—and 2014-2022 wasn't one, but the AI era is. His hunch: the surge of exceptional young founders in the first years of AI likely caught some funds by surprise.
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