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Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI"There's two things that I care about the most: the gym and my work," says Mahir Laul.The 18-year-old took a leave of absence from New York University this past fall to work full-time on his HR tech startup, Velric. While his classmates are taking shots and hooking up, Laul is coding and lifting. That means almost no time for romance."I am obsessed with work," he tells me. "My love life is in the gutters."His young founder friends are a similar story, he says. The few who are dating found their partners before they started their companies, while the rest are "locked in" on building — and locking themselves out of the dating pool.Silicon Valley has long been the land where mixing work with play was seen as crucial to its growth. While Google and Facebook were being built, their staff were also tripping on ayahuasca and canoodling in "cuddle puddles." Now, amid the white-collar job apocalypse and the cutthroat AI race, tech has gone hardcore. Ramp has seen a spike in corporate card purchases on Saturdays in the Bay Area. Foot traffic at San Francisco office buildings was up 21.6% year over year in July, per Placer.ai, the highest uptick among major cities. And as I found in conversations with more than two dozen young tech professionals, the industry's upstarts are pounding through hourslong coding sprints, working 996 schedules (9 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days a week), and proudly telling their investors and X followers how they've gone "monk mode" in service of scaling their startups.For many in Silicon Valley's young hustle class, "it's time to build" means there's no time to bone. They're on one type of grind, and it's not on the dance floor, which shuts down early in San Francisco anyway. Tech's dating scene, never particularly hot, has frozen over.Hackathons, pitch decks, scrambling for investors — the life of a startup founder has never been amenable to a rich dating life. Lauren Kay, a former dating app founder who now runs a literary business, tells me that when she was a member of the 2014 Y Combinator class, she had to ask her cofounder for permission to go on a first date at 10 p.m. on a Saturday. Still, she did meet her husband in that YC class. Douglas Feigelson, a member of that same class, says "there was opportunity to drink and date when I was in YC."The opportunity cost is really high. Every night you spent out is time you could have spent building your startupAnnie Liao, 24, founder of the AI learning startup Build ClubA decade later, many founders feel like they can't afford to make the time.A good relationship is like a good startup, says Daivik Goel, the 27-year-old founder of the payroll platform Shor. "It takes a lot of time to nurture at the beginning if you want to do them right." For now, he only has the bandwidth to nurture one. Like many of his founder friends, he says, he's not on any dating apps, and he doesn't seek out hookups at bars. "I haven't had the time to really invest yet."Several founders I spoke to described dating in founder terms. "The opportunity cost is really high," says Annie Liao, the 24-year-old founder of AI learning startup Build Club. "Every night you spent out is time you could have spent building your startup." She adds, "Most founders wait until the startup is more stable, like Series B."Liao says her founder roommates aren't dating either. They hook up sometimes for fun — so long as they don't get "emotionally attached." For those working seven days a week on their startup, opening Hinge is "a big, big distraction," she says.Some blame the dating recession on tech workers treating dating like an extension of their work. Liao says her male friends often give women ratings, "like KPIs." These ratings are out of 10, and offer a "numerical…

Le documentaire « Un jeune homme de bonne famille », réalisé par Sébastien Lifshitz, est visible sur arte.fr. Il est également diffusé lundi 19 janvier 2026 à 22h35 sur Arte. Claude Loir, aujourd’hui octogénaire, qui s’y raconte intimement. De son enfance en Ariège à la découverte de son homosexualité et à ses amours, en passant par la soixantaine de films pornos - y compris hétéros - dans lesquels il a tourné, il se livre avec franchise et sans fausse pudeur. Ce documentaire contribue à donner de la visibilité à l’histoire et aux vécus LGBTQ+ méconnus ou stigmatisés et, en toile de fond, évoque l’évolution des mœurs en France durant la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle.

Pour leur premier match de l'année 2026 en championnat, les U17 parisiens se sont imposés face au FC Mantois grâce notamment à un doublé du latéral gauche Jarell Paisley (3-1). Au classement, les coéquipiers de Axel Koukaba, leaders de la poule, prennent provisoirement huit points d'avance sur leur dauphin Montrouge.

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Ce dimanche 18 janvier, la presse française (sur l’aspect sportif) s’est concentrée du côté du Paris Saint-Germain sur le lob magistral d’Ousmane Dembélé (attaquant de 28 ans) contre Lille vendredi, le projet d’une filiale NBA, le recrutement de Dro Fernandez (milieu de 18 du FC Barcelone) et la finale de la CAN entre le Sénégal et le Maroc ce soir (à 20h) qui va opposer Ibrahim Mbaye (attaquant de 17 ans) à Achraf Hakimi (latéral droit de 27 ans). Le Parisien – L’Equipe – La CAN se termine ce soir, avec une très belle affiche qui va forcément passionner les deux pays, ainsi que les Sénégalais et Marocains qui vivent à l’étranger. Dont la France, où le PSG compte en plus un joueur de chaque nation. Impossible d’avoir une préférence, on espère surtout un beau match et aucune blessure. Hakimi pourrait enfin rejouer au PSG prochainement, c’est un atout important. Mais Mbaye aussi fera du bien, le groupe n’étant pas trop large. Même s’il y aura moins de matchs, on sait aussi que l’année est difficile physiquement car il n’y a pas eu de place pour une préparation estivale. Avec la Coupe du Monde au bout, cette saison est un vrai défi. Retrouver le génie de Dembélé fait le plus grand bien, en espérant qu’il pourra enchaîner. Et que ses coéquipiers vont en profiter pour retrouver davantage de confiance dans la finition, et ainsi de l’efficacité. Il devrait aussi y avoir la signature de Dro Fernandez afin d’étoffer un peu le groupe. A côté de tout cela, il y a un travail en cours avec la NBA. Ce qui pourrait être un grand axe de développement pour le club, mais il faut trouver la bonne formule.