joining me to discuss age bias in the tech industry is david mariani. nk you so much for being with us. why hasn't gotten to this point to thisas it gotten point? why is silicon valley worse than other industries? it comes to investment in venture capital, i think there has been an overemphasis on youth as opposed to age. if you look at pattern matching, which is what these good vc's are good at, they tend to follow each other, and they end up investing in a lot of young startups with first-time ceo's who are swinging for the fences. tom: the idea is that maybe young people are more likely to take bigger risks, is that it? if you are married, you have kids, you are thinking about college or your second house in the hamptons or this, you are less likely to kind of tucked in for the long haul and wait for a payoff down the road, is that the idea? big part of it. they are looking for a home run, a billion-dollar outcome. a very prominent vc in the valley spent two hours in a room with two harbors, and the questions they were asking me, what is your goal, to