I heard of it, however I did not believe it - now I do - sad but true
I know most people "working" or being active in crypto, web3 or blockchain are often the younger ones and I especially enjoyed to be part of this community, interact with young ones that made me feel great, learned a lot about other generations way of thinking.
I love(d) the entire blockchain movement, the approach to make this world a better place with decentralisation, by empowering communities and content creators with rewards, helping users from countries with financial issues to save jobs and income, getting rid of centralized structures where web2 players own and control data of their users.
After my decision to quit my job and to enter blockchain as the place of my future also professionally I met a lot awesome people, a great community of people that wanna build something. This is the positive side!
On the negative side I am learning a lot the hard way now. Having experienced a lot great things in my traditional tech sales and marketing life where young and old work together to ensure that innovative solutions, new thinking and disruptive ideas are connected with wisdom and experience to make innovation also a "product" that is adopted by masses I am now coming to the point where I have to admit: Blockchain or web3 or NFT seems different!
Even most of these job adverts required over 10 years of experience in "xyz", track record of successful selling in "xyz" - the truth is: No one will even talk to you if you do not fit into a certain age matrix. Wisdom, experience from the old technology world does not count, track record of over 6 years building, driving and supporting things in blockchain as old fart does not count. The criteria for hiring managers seems to be simple: Hire the young ones for any crypto job, no matter if they might own the skills to make these disruptive ideas successful. And immediately throw applications of people around 50 into the trash.