The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
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#2woah woah... a bartender becomes the head of engineering at a high flying start up? This isn't the .com. Did the bartender also go to MIT?
Drug fueled founder parties? Orgies? I've clearly been doing silicon valley wrong. Or right, depending on your perspective... but not this? I've seen board game fueled parties where maybe one or two people do drugs, but it remains very nerdy? And no sex parties. Mostly sausage parties?
... so yeah. Do people really know Jims? Because I just read posts about them.
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#3“presumably under the influence of some strong chemicals”
This is a bigger problem in Silicon Valley right now than anyone seems ready to acknowledge.
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#4Interesting. I am sure there are Jims outside of startup world too. There will be finance Jims and entertainment Jims.
Is having a couple of pets and a ridiculous table lifestyle creep. Maybe. I think of lifestyle creep more in terms of you are not saving any money at all.
I think that comment is more telling of what is expected of founders and engineers. At least from authors point of view.
No life allowed. Definitely don't reproduce. You work, and work so you can work more.
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#5Bit of an aside but I found it somewhat amusing that one example the author uses of Jim’s financial recklessness was getting into home brewing.
Home brewing is one of the cheaper hobbies available (though like all hobbies you can spend as much as you want). The only real requirements are a bucket and a pot.
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#6I've met a few people like that, through what appears to be pure determination, they force success to give up what it has. Very impressive.
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#7“presumably under the influence of some strong chemicals” This is a bigger problem in Silicon Valley right now than anyone seems ready to acknowledge.
I see the "we work 12 hrs a day 6 days a week" as a euphemism for "we take amphetamines".
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#8Drugs are bad, mmkay
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#9“presumably under the influence of some strong chemicals” This is a bigger problem in Silicon Valley right now than anyone seems ready to acknowledge.
I see the "we work 12 hrs a day 6 days a week" as a euphemism for "we take amphetamines".
Whenever you hear someone say they work 80- (or 100!) hour weeks, you should understand what they mean is they had a few crunch weeks once.
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#10woah woah... a bartender becomes the head of engineering at a high flying start up? This isn't the .com. Did the bartender also go to MIT? Drug fueled founder parties? Orgies? I've clearly been doing silicon valley wrong. Or right, depending on your perspective... but not this? I've seen board game fueled parties where maybe one or two people do drugs, but it remains very nerdy? And no sex parties. Mostly sausage par…
> And no sex parties. Mostly sausage parties?
Clearly you weren't cool enough to get into the drug-fuelled OpenAI gay sex orgies.