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Nice, will be good to share this as a link to summarize the set of issues.

What do you think of your CEO now :)?

Greate going! Wish you all the virtual support I/we can.

:-) - Strangely, I am looking forward to this. I think it just comes down to the fact that I am very comfortable with JS and node ecosystem and prefer that over all other mobile platforms atm. I also think maintaining one (almost ~80%) codebase for both platforms is a significant advantage.

To clarify - Expo as a framework, and not XDE. I think they have made Expo eject a bit cumbersome but works with some wrangling. I like the the Expokit framework in general but don't want to be tied to the Expo's release chain.

On the other hand - I find its the other way.

Xcode is the most "diff" IDE from other IDEs. I like Swift but just dont like Objective-C. The build tools and ecosystem is too tightly tied (I like to switch between development machines without having to always be on a mac).

Java is definitely painful, but I suppose the bias I have here is that I have developed on it for several years.

The breath of fresh air so far has been React-native and i wish more things get ported over to JS (or like Expo kit).

Congratulations! A welcome change in healthcare.

Are you building a relationship with the hospitals and clinics so that we wont't have to talk to them, but just use your api to get and push our patient's data?

Personally, my experience in the valley (being hired as well hiring people) has been not been guided by age. My experience has been with the startup since it was at 50 member to well over 100 now.

I am in early 30s, which means I am mostly interviewing for senior engineering position. I have been part of teams where we have made offers to several folks older than I am for similar or higher position. This is the only time when age does come up for discussion (is he really qualified to be a senior or not?)

However, some patterns I do notice from time to time are:

- Younger folks are more eager at times to do more.

- Their enthusiasm also comes with quality of work that needs some additional care. But, it is critical we mentor them during these times.

- Older folks are generally more clear on what they want to work and how they want to solve a problem. Experience most likely.

- The really bad situation to be in is when some of the older (senior) folks don't drive and take initiatives and just wade through. With someone senior you want them to be there to mentor, help, guide, keep an eye out on many things, but we have seen a few senior folks who don't make that effort - This is probably the #1 problem I have seen in teams. A sense of agility is almost vital.

- I have seen the same lack of "drive" amongst some younger devs as well.

- End of the day, its not age, its almost the subject scale of how passionate they are about their work that has worked for us. Old/young is really irrelevant.

Communication is a primary requirement in a team sport and especially football.

His own example, forget the manager, the players themselves have to be on the same page in so many levels during practice. Don't you think Messi, Neymar, and Alexis (all 3 different countries playing for Barca) would have to practice and know precisely about their timing.

I think the key thing here is the who really needs whom. Most entrepreneurs need YC/VCs and so might have to suck up what they expect.