Gen Z founders are building companies in an age of abundance- information at their fingertips, communities a click away, and a second brain in their pockets. Rejection rarely paralyzes this generation. They process it quickly and move on, drawing perspectives from Reddit threads. ChatGPT exchanges and peer networks that stretch across borders. Where previous cohorts often learned by stumbling through bureaucracy and compromise, today’s 20-30-year-old entrepreneurs can tap into a diverse, always-on support system to make sense of setbacks and decide what to do next. In Bangladesh, though, promise collides with a different set of frictions. Many Gen Z founders carry more self-awareness than spatial awareness; they can read a room emotionally but still misread how power, process, and patience work in this market. The global bias that prizes youth yet, paradoxically, questions it- think of Paul Graham’s line about 32 being a cut-off age for a promising founder- can undermine young entrepreneurs’ confidence in their own research and erode conviction at the negotiating table. Bangladesh compounds this tension. Young founders report the same recurring hurdles: difficulty communicating with investors and partners, ideas dismissed as naive, and the reality of operating at seed or early stage, where patience is not a virtue but a requirement.