It’s difficult to pin the meltdowns at Twitter and FTX on just one factor, but Arianna Huffington, CEO of Thrive Global, has a contender: The obsession their respective CEOs, Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried, have with the grind.
“The idea that humans are simply vessels for work and can be made as efficient as machines goes back a lot further than Silicon Valley—it’s what drove the Industrial Revolution,” Huffington, whose company focuses on moving away from burnout, wrote in an opinion piece for The Information this week.
