Beards vs suits ...

[rslade]

I have a beard.

Oh, you don't trust me on that?  Fair enough.  Most kids don't trust men with beards.  Here:

This was taken a while ago, so the hair is whiter now ...

So, do companies trust greybeards?

Probably not.  The C-suite seems to be filled with kids, so they don't trust us.

They think we are powerful, though ...

[Steve-Wilme]

So you're saying Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Bruce Schneier, Steve Wozniak, Paul Allen et al are all inherently untrustworthy due to facial hair?

[vt100]

Well, unless our C-suite sample was under 13 on average, we should be safe:

"Interestingly, around the age of puberty, young peoples' views changed. "Kids all of a sudden had a jump in beard preferences," says Nelson. They started to like beards more and judged them more like adults do."