The Wall Street Journal has a piece about Silicon Valley's love of drugs and use of psychedelics in startup circles that's turned into something people feel like they have to do in order to succeed. This quote from Spencer Shulem, CEO of the startup BuildBetter.ai regarding VC firms and investors stuck with me - "they don't want a normal person, a normal company", "they want something extraordinary. You're not born extraordinary", so people take LSD and ketamine not really because they want to, but because investors want a certain personality and taking drugs boosts that personality trait investors want. Explains some of the behaviour from these people to be honest.
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