> Thiel and Levchin also wanted workaholics who were not MBAs, consultants, frat boys, or, God forbid, jocks. "This guy came in, and I asked what he liked to do for fun," Levchin recalls. "He said, 'I really enjoy playing hoops.' I said, 'We can't hire the guy. Everyone I knew in college who liked to play hoops was an idiot.'"
And because paypal was successful, everyone will believe his strategy is perfect. Some sports and drinking are not a death knoll to your tech startup ability.
Classic example of just trying to hire everyone that's identical to you, totally missing people out of the ordinary. Yes, working hard and having no life is not that unusual.
> no more dangerous than typical household cleaning products.
Should all household cleaning products be banned for places without industrial grade ventilation systems too? Zoning bylaws exist because their is not sufficient proven danger for these regulations to exist as State or Federal laws.