Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
FORTUNE -- It's a question this 47-year-old found himself pondering even before reading Noam Scheiber's delightfully well-written cover story in The New Republic. Scheiber finds an early-middle-aged entrepreneur from Boston, Nick Stamos, who had enjoyed modest success during his technology career but was unable to get Silicon Valley venture capitalists to back him. He concluded that the Sand Hill Road VCs are age-obsessed.
