“Working 80 or 90 hours a week is beyond your imagination,” Liebman said. “If you want to build here, that’s basically what you need.”
Liebman and his co-founder Adam Silverman feel the pulse of around-the-clock energy through their South Park office hack nights. Each week, we invite AI builders to code from 8pm to 1am, providing popcorn, strobe lights, fog machines, and house music.
“We have people contacting us from all over the world, from India to Dubai to Singapore, wanting to join us virtually. They literally want to be here so badly they want to see us on their Zoom screen.” Liebman said. “People are literally scratching at the door and saying, ‘I need this energy.'”
Liebman and Silberman echo the single-minded enthusiasm they’ve seen in San Francisco, where Soylent-fueled coding has exploded, with Big Tech incumbents having a greater advantage than ever in shaping the AI revolution. It is connected to the recognition that one has it.
The bottom line is that the only way for startups to take charge of the biggest technology change of their lives is to spend their precious time fighting for market share.
