In Silicon Valley, the new generation of young entrepreneurs has left behind the holidays where rivers of alcohol ran. The example that follow is that of the big names of Silicon Valley, such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Altman or Bryan Johnson, which prioritize their business projects ahead of their own social life.
The phenomenon is not isolated, and more and more young entrepreneurs share the same mentality: “Why go to a bar if I can be creating a company?” Summarizes Emily Yuan, a young founder of Silicon Valley, in an interview for The Wall Street Journal. The data does not lie: the consumption of alcohol among the young people of the Z generation is being reduced and, in the scope of the Silicon Valley startup incubators, the norm is increasingly and not the exception.
Silicon Valley’s new habits. The daily routine of those who aspire to success in Silicon Valley is marked by working hours that exceed the usual. According to what was published by The Wall Street JournalMarty Kausas, 28 years old and founder of the Startup Pylon, commented in a LinkedIn post that chained several weeks in a row of 92 hours of work and that canceled his vacation because the stress of work prevented him from taking a few days to rest.
However, in another publication, the young entrepreneur ruled out that in his company a “culture of 996” was applied for his employees, in reference to the new export trend of Asia, in which he works from nine in the morning to nine in the afternoon and six days per week.
What is fun? The main paradigm change that shows this group of very young technological entrepreneurs is to define what fun is. In his case, and as Marty Kausas and Emily Yuan detailed, what they consider fun is not to spend some time with friends drinking some beers. “Our motivation to start a company was fun and adventure. But what is fun for us is quite different from what is fun for others.”
That concept, together with the messages against alcohol that some influential figures of Silicon Valley are giving, such as Sam Altman, which has manifested himself totally contrary to alcohol consumption, or Mark Zuckerberg that, unlike his cows, only drinks beer on a few special occasions and what is necessary to take the photo. In general, for “technobros“From Silicon Valley alcohol and parties no longer enter the concept of fun.
Sobriety in the tech era. Generation Z, globally, is reducing alcohol consumption worldwide. The data suggests that there was a drop in alcohol consumption of 4.5% per year since 2011, and has been stabilized since then.
According to the latest Health Report, the average consumption of each adult in Europe went from 12 liters per year in 2000 to 9.5 liters in 2019, and if we focus on wine, the only alcoholic beverage that drinks Jeff Bezos in special celebrations, the data suggests that its average consumption per adult has fallen from 14.2 liters in 1990 to 10 liters in 2017.
In the “new garitos” there is talk of financing This decrease in alcohol consumption has been associated with a cultural change in the social activities of these new entrepreneurs. The meetings between colleagues, formerly animated by toast and drinks, are now meetings in Saunas, motivational talks or gym routines in search of professional connections.
Miranda Nover, co -founder of a fitness startup called Fort, said in an interview for Business Insider That the image of ascetic existence is very important for young entrepreneurs. “You are trying to transmit: we do this six days a week in the office, we work until 9 pm, we do not drink, we do not party, we do not do any of that.”
The businessmen of the future are “Healthy”. Unlike what happened with the previous generations of Millionaire Founders, such as Henry Ford or Aristotle Onassis, in which alcohol ran to all its parties. Now, alcohol consumption has ceased to be the central axis and a closest philosophy to the postulates of Millionaire Bryan Johnson has been adopted to focus all the energy on productivity. In San Francisco’s artificial intelligence events, alcohol is absent.
According to Michelle Fang, 26 years old and event organizer for these Precocos Founders of Silicon Valley, among the reasons why at the parties of the Entrepreneurs quarry it is not only for a change in the concept of leisure and health: “Many events related to ia do not serve alcohol, not only because it is fashionable among the public of San Francisco. Many founders are not enough to drink.”
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