Jasmine Sun

They are a mom juggling a bunch of kids or some tech founder with like a really intense job.

They're always sort of in this mode of trying to figure out how can I save more time?

How can I achieve these aspirational lifestyles like to look a certain way or to feel a certain way without as much time, as much cost, whatever?

And so I think the interest in if a Zempik feels like this magical weight loss drug you can instantly –

you know, lose 50 pounds or whatever, people are very interested in, oh, what if oxytocin could help me instantly feel connection with other people and make friends, even though it's hard to make friends?

Or what if this other drug will help me get tanner so I don't have to go in the sun?

I can just take melanotan and inject it and then I'm going to get a suntan automatically.

Yeah, I think what Karen said is definitely one of the big factors.

There's another trend this summer in Silicon Valley, the 996 trend.

Please, yes, talk about this.

Please talk about this.

It is a new work culture trend of working from 9am to 9pm, six days a week, borrowed from the Chinese tech culture of the 2010s, but which was so extreme that even the Chinese government made it illegal for companies to mandate 996.

But a lot of Silicon Valley startups have started embracing the sort of hustle of the 996 culture.

So one is just like, we are in a period where I think

hustle culture is back in, people are celebrating these long hours.

And as one of my sources said, why be consistent at the gym when I could work 16 hours straight at my research job?

I think another factor too has to do with the way that Silicon Valley thinks about the establishment, thinks about institutions, and thinks about themselves.

So I think a lot of folks who are in the tech community really

pride themselves on feeling like they are on the frontier, like they can figure things out themselves.

And so this sort of, quote unquote, do your own research mode of approaching medicine is really appealing.