I don't know about "most", but the target of most startups is definitely on the lower end of the age spectrum. It's easier pay and treat them worse, because they don't know any better and generally haven't sufficient experience to recognize that "the next big thing" they're working on isn't.
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"When companies stop treating devs as juveniles"
The problem, of course, is that most devs are juveniles. At least in startupland.
I don't know about "most", but the target of most startups is definitely on the lower end of the age spectrum. It's easier pay and treat them worse, because they don't know any better and generally haven't sufficient experience to recognize that "the next big thing" they're working on isn't.