It's hard to judge by looking at the person. The way you would judge determination, because people act determined. No one walks into their Y Combinator interview thinking, I need to seem diffident. And it's how they tell the story or it's what happens. What they did in the story. That something went wrong and instead of giving up, they persevered. Why are there so few great founders in their 20s today? Is that true?"

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