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mattjaynes
BREAKING NEWS: Older person attempts to seem younger!

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pg
It's not unusual for people to try to seem younger, but this is the first case in my knowledge of a startup founder lying about his age.
joshwa
Is that you, Captain_Obvious?
mechanical_fish
Now we know why so many successful startups seem to be founded by people under thirty.
ajkates
Again, it's a trust thing. Communities are based entirely upon trust, and no one wants to trust an old geezer.

Plus, it probably helped him pick up the ladies.

jadams
Yeah, it's better to trust a liar than a "geezer". What is this, the freaking Cultural Revolution?

P.S. That was something that happened before 1985.

gojomo
Myspace is from LA. If I moved to LA, I'd probably subtract 5 years from my age, too. It's local custom.
patrickg-zill
Just like Omidyar and eBay, where they floated the story about him just wanting to sell his girlfriend's Pez collection or whatever it was that the PR firm dreamed up.
vlad
Or YouTube and the dinner party story. Plus it had three co-founders, not two.
honewatson
I'd lie about my age to for $510 million dollars.
asdflkj
If the audience is shallow enough to like a site more based on the founder's age, it's only fitting that he should lie about it. Caesar's to Caesar.
zaidf
Next: Tom is not the founder of MySpace.

People should read up the history of MySpace.