For a while, the life of the tech employee was an idyllic one: local kombucha and beer on tap in the office, a strict 40-hour work week, and a generous six-figure salary, while building the Next Big Thing. But most startups are doomed to fail. (from 2014)
Neither man was having an easy time keeping it together. Chris was waking up every morning at 5 am grinding his teeth, and Nick’s belt was clearly two notches tighter than usual. They had not taken paychecks in months; they’d be lucky, in fact, if they ended up paying themselves $30,000 apiece for the year. Nick was making ends meet by Airbnb-ing out his apartment a couple of blocks from their office and commuting an hour each way from his girlfriend’s place in Petaluma.
Silicon Valley is not a place where one is invited to show frailty or despondence. It is, as Nick puts it, "the place where everybody is killing it all the time." This might seem peculiar, given that the lot of the small-business founder has always been a fragile one. But in recent years the Valley has successfully elaborated the fantasy that entrepreneurship—and, more broadly, creativity—can be systematized.
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