Club soda, on the rocks: Startup founders and investors are saying bye to booze as Silicon Valley goes sober
talking with other sober founders, including the Twitch founder Justin Kan, the Flexport founder Ryan Petersen, and the Eight Sleep founder Matteo Franceschetti.that he'd cut out drinking on most nights, which made the"biggest difference" to his quality of sleep.
"I really enjoy drinking with friends, but it's very taxing for the next day, and I just need to be sharp," he told Insider."When you drink the night before, you're a little slower, less articulate, and low energy. That's really hard because in this industry, you have to be high energy. For me, it's just too big of a price to pay.
Pell, the cofounder of The What, said she didn't have a hard line on drinking ever again but that the health effects of going dry had been staggering.
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