In Silicon Valley, the new generation of young entrepreneurs has left behind the parties at which alcohol rivers ran. The example that follows is that of the big names of Silicon Valley, such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Altman or Bryan Johnsonwhich 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: alcohol consumption Among the youth of generation Z It is being reduced and, in the scope of Silicon Valley startup incubators, the norm is increasingly and not 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 Pyloncommented in a LinkedIn publication 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 publicationthe young entrepreneur ruled out that in his company a “culture of 996” was applied for his employees, in reference to the new Asia export trendin which you work 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 is fun. 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 are giving some influential figures of Silicon Valley, such as Sam Altman, which has manifested himself totally contrary to alcohol consumptionor Mark Zuckerberg that, Unlike your cowsjust drink beer on few special occasions and what is necessary To take the photo. In general, for “Tecnobros“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 They point out that there was a drop in alcohol consumption of 4.5% per year since 2011, and has been stabilized since then.
According to him last report of health 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 celebrationsthe Data point to 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 closer philosophy has been adopted to the Millionaire’s postulates Bryan Johnsonto 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 Precotes founders of Silicon Valley, among the reasons why at the parties of the Entrepreneurs quarry is not only for a Change in the concept of leisure And health: “Many events related to AI do not serve alcohol, not only because it is out of fashion among the San Francisco public. Many founders are not enough to drink.”
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