The younger ones are surprisingly good; two of our shortlisted students are 16, and they are better filmmakers than many of our older entrants".
In a pattern typical in Appalachia, many of the older entrants have had no formal lessons and picked up their skill by imitation and in jam sessions.
Enter Vangst, a now three-year-old, Denver-based startup that just raised $10 million in Series A funding from earlier backers Casa Verde Capital and Lerer Hippeau to become the go-to recruiting platform for the industry, even while going up against several older entrants, including Seattle-based Viridian Staffing and Ganjapreneur, in Bellingham, Wash.
[C17.] Trying to Add Sass to Hot Sauce Ads Frank's Red Hot Cayenne Pepper Sauce, one of the oldest entrants in the competitive market for hot sauces, is receiving a makeover from its new agency.
Indeed, there was an 88-year-old entrant in the national championships this year.
At 33, Jones was the oldest entrant in the final, but she showed her experience in a competitive final - saving her best run of the week for her last attempt.
Men's Journal, Wenner Media's 10-year-old entrant in the men's adventure category, is about to explore the great indoors and begin competing more directly with the men's general-interest magazines, Esquire and GQ.
A forty-year-old entrant (no photo) wrote, under the subject line, "You'll like me, you'll really, really like me!" Then: "I'm 5'170 170 lbs (enough muscle to be able to walk the 8th Avenue runway with my head held high)." The man argued that he should be picked because "when I stadium-concert-dance I don't look like somebody's dad".
Amazon entered the foray last year, but it remains only in Singapore, while Shopee is a two-year-old entrant bankrolled by Sea, formerly Garena, which raised over $1 billion in a U.S. IPO last year.
Adams, the youngest junior-middleweight in the tournament, at age 25, is fighting the oldest entrant, 32-year-old Alex Perez (18-1, 10 KOs) from Newark, N.J.
On the flight to the national spelling bee, Guy meets Chaitanya Chopra, a 10-year-old entrant in the bee who persistently attempts to befriend Guy.
