Generation Z is breaking the old trends of previous generations regarding leisure already work culture. However, Silicon Valley’s young tech entrepreneurs are taking these changes to the extremeputting their work objectives before social development. As and how I collected Business Insiderthese young founders prefer to spend their days programming and looking for investors, to establishing emotional and sentimental ties, betting on a conscious celibacy.
This almost monastic way of life places business success and the days 996 above couple relationships, and conceive emotional relationships in business terms that must obtain an immediate return, not as a social skills training.
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Entrepreneurs obsessed with work. Mahir Laul, founder of human resources software startup Velriche said in an interview for the American media that he only thinks about the gym and his company. “What matters most to me are two things: the gym and my job,” showing how his work obsession leaves his love life abandoned. “I’m obsessed with work. My love life is on the rocks,” said the 18-year-old.
Many of their peers avoid romances because creating the next unicorn consumes all their time with Slack messages and meetings with investors to raise funds. This sacrifice, voluntary and consciousalso includes healthy food and zero alcohol, as a strategy to maximize daily productivity under the promise of achieving business success in the shortest time possible.
The high cost of dating. Annie Liao, 24 years old and founder of Build Cluban AI education company, thinks that their time is too valuable to be spent on leisure and that going out at night is wasting time that could be used to generate new code that improves the functioning of their platform or generate new ideas. “The opportunity cost is very high. Every night you spend away is time that you could have used to build your startup,” explained the founder, summarizing her idea that the leisure time is wasted time.
The statements of Liao’s roommates in San Francisco share the same perspective, and see dating apps as a “big distraction” that steals mental focus from what is a priority for them: making their startup grow. For them, human relationships, whether for forge friendship or sentimental tiesthey are only worth it if they give quick results, as a good investment.
“They want to biohack love,” said Amy Andersen, executive director of the Linx Dating dating platform, indicating that young founders see human relationships in business terms in which if you are not going to offer an immediate benefit, they don’t even bother trying.
They see relationships as an advantage. The curious thing is that those entrepreneurs who had already forged a stable relationship before founding their startup also see those relationships in business terms.
Yang Fan Yun, co-founder of Compositea startup of AI agents for browsers, had your interview who had a long-distance relationship with his college girlfriend since she worked in New York and he had settled in San Francisco to promote the growth of his company.
The founder assured that “being in a relationship helps a lot to build the company”, not because of the emotional support that comes from having someone who cares about you by your side, but because she is the first to try their products and offer direct feedback, turning the couple into a useful resource for the business.
Chronic loneliness and cognition. Although these entrepreneurs choose of their own free will to not have a partner to focus on their companies, prolonged emotional loneliness without romantic ties can damage key brain functions. Research carried out by Pennsylvania State University (USA) revealed the impact of lack of emotional ties and chronic loneliness in young adults and how this slows down the development of memory and reasoning in tests, leading to premature mental aging, even if they maintain work contacts or superficial friendships.
The World Health Organization warns that the absence of deep emotional ties doubles the risk of falling into serious depression and dying prematurely, a real danger for those they choose conscious celibacy for professional ambition, since the brain needs genuine connections to regulate daily stress.
Withdrawal and emotional stress. On the other hand, studies from the Universität Braunschweig and the Leibniz Institute in Germany, investigated the effects of not maintaining intimate or romantic relationships and discovered that the presence of calming hormones such as oxytocin and endorphins, essential for well-being, is reduced.
This absence causes chronic stress to accumulate and greater anxiety to appear as months or years pass, lowering self-esteem and making young people more vulnerable. to mental disorders.
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