In Silicon Valley, Working 9 to 5 Is for Losers<br />In a recent essay Mr. Hansson excoriated venture capitalists as brainwashing founders with “an ingrained mythology around start-ups<br />that not only celebrates burnout efforts but damn well requires it.” He says V. C.s are exploiting founders.<br />Silicon Valley prides itself on “thinking different.” So maybe it makes sense<br />that just as a lot of industries have begun paying more attention to work-life balance, Silicon Valley is taking the opposite approach — and branding workaholism as a desirable lifestyle choice.<br />That’s how you get it.”<br />Mr. Vaynerchuk is also a judge on Apple’s “Planet of the Apps,” a reality show<br />where app developers compete to win funding from a venture capital firm.<br />That’s a risk you have to take.” The show’s promotional tweet added: “For the ultimate reward, he’ll put everything on the line.”<br />The guy is developing an app that lets you visualize how a coffee table from a catalog might look in your living room.<br />“Everyone wants to be a model employee,” said Anim Aweh, a clinical social worker in the Bay Area who sees a lot of stressed-out tech workers.<br />An entire cottage industry has sprung up there, selling an internet-centric prosperity gospel<br />that says that there is no higher calling than to start your own company, and that to succeed you must be willing to give up everything.<br />Last year, Lyft published a blog post praising a driver who kept picking up fares<br />even after she went into labor and was driving to the hospital to give birth.
