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Jon Chu
@jonchu
Partner @ KV, 2x founder, OG @ PLTR, OPEN, Docker, ML @ Meta // Investor in Sakana, Databricks, Anthropic, Bun, Runlayer, Iceguard, Coframe++
Joined June 2009
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It's an interesting thought experiment for why hard work has become such a badge in this era. The startups today don't work any harder than early Facebook or the serious ones that came after. It was just kind of the baseline if you were doing it. Thoughts on why?
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It's very strange watching the frenzy occurring in Silicon Valley right now. Everyone's caught in a vicious cycle of hyperproductivity: you see someone else working 996 and talking about how hard they're working. So then you need to too. You see someone else raise a monster round and talk about "how successful they are". So then you feel the need to too. It's a mix of megalomania and fear. 90% of people are burned out, recognizing that they're working at an unsustainable rate. But capitalism waits for no one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ One day we'll all wake up and realize that things we actually wanted... We could have had for free all along: Being Human. Family. Being in Nature. Community. It'll all just be financialized by then... with a data center built on top 🫠
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