1) The Time long-read on that crazy guy is very much worth reading -- I'm afraid a link will get this comment tagged as spam but it's the one titled "The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever." So much shade thrown.
2) Anyone who has tried to raise a round in the past year knows that it is anything but easy to "raise a round" and part of why you're seeing so much M&A activity is that the companies who ran out of money and were no longer able to "raise a round" are getting sold at fire-sale prices, and the rest of us are trying to stay profitable and/or stretch any remaining cash until the market gets better or we are able to go public.
8) A lot of people I know don't drink alcohol or have mostly switched to legal weed, but I also have tapered off relationships with anyone I know who drinks a lot so that might just be my experience. I also think that everyone I know who has aged 10+ years since 2012 and/or had kids is drinking a lot less or not at all, so I'm guessing he is assuming "the city has changed" rather than that he's not hanging around with 20/30somethings single bros as much.
Anyway this is all to say that this guy sounds like a garbage person and unfortunately, the ping pong places do still exist (they're actually not that bad for teambuilding type events, and they have other games like shuffleboard too). Sorry this comment was so long but there were a lot of triggers in there
1) The Time long-read on that crazy guy is very much worth reading -- I'm afraid a link will get this comment tagged as spam but it's the one titled "The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever." So much shade thrown.
2) Anyone who has tried to raise a round in the past year knows that it is anything but easy to "raise a round" and part of why you're seeing so much M&A activity is that the companies who ran out of money and were no longer able to "raise a round" are getting sold at fire-sale prices, and the rest of us are trying to stay profitable and/or stretch any remaining cash until the market gets better or we are able to go public.
8) A lot of people I know don't drink alcohol or have mostly switched to legal weed, but I also have tapered off relationships with anyone I know who drinks a lot so that might just be my experience. I also think that everyone I know who has aged 10+ years since 2012 and/or had kids is drinking a lot less or not at all, so I'm guessing he is assuming "the city has changed" rather than that he's not hanging around with 20/30somethings single bros as much.
Anyway this is all to say that this guy sounds like a garbage person and unfortunately, the ping pong places do still exist (they're actually not that bad for teambuilding type events, and they have other games like shuffleboard too). Sorry this comment was so long but there were a lot of triggers in there