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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…

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Un OM de gala ce samedi soir à Angers. Le club phocéen n’a pas tremblé en s’imposant sur le score de 5 buts 2 pour le compte de la 18e journée de Ligue 1. Une victoire éclatante qui a ébloui de nombreux observateurs. Dans l’émission l’After Foot ce samedi soir, l’éditorialiste Walid Acherchour a été agréablement surpris de la qualité de jeu des joueurs de Roberto De Zerbi, en première période et n’a pas manqué de faire une comparaison avec le Paris Saint-Germain à la surprise générale. « En Ligue 1, sur les 45 premières minutes, personne n’est capable, hormis le PSG, de produire ce football-là. Sans s’enflammer, c’est une première période ‘PSG-esque’ que j’ai vu ce soir, » a-t-il lancé dans l’émission l’After Foot. Des propos forts qui devraient faire plaisir aux supporters olympiens. En confiance avant d’affronter Liverpool L’Olympique enchaine. Après sa qualification pour les huitièmes de finale de la Coupe de France, le club phocéen s’est rassuré au niveau des résultats mais surtout dans le jeu avec sa victoire face au SCO d’Angers. Un succès éclatant qui leur permettra d’arrive en confiance au Vélodrome pour y recevoir Liverpool. Un résultat positif est primordial pour les Olympiens s’ils veulent rejoindre les barrages. De son coté, Liverpool ne s’est pas rassuré et a dû concéder le nul sur sa pelouse face à Burnley (1-1).

Après deux victoires pour lancer 2026, l’OL veut poursuivre sa belle série face à Brest. La venue du club breton lance un vrai marathon sur les trois prochaines semaines. Des victoires à Monaco et à Lille, l'OL ne pouvait difficilement rêver meilleur départ dans cette nouvelle année. Avec deux déplacements compliqués à gérer, les joueurs […] L’article Contre Brest, l’OL se lance dans un vrai marathon est apparu en premier sur Olympique & Lyonnais.