Silicon Valley's hot new talking points: beer and cigarettes
Source: Business Insider ·
Tech bros can't stop talking about beer after Mark Zuckerberg drinking a Guinness went viral earlier in the week.
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Jensen Huang, among other tech figures, features on the "Tech Founder Beer Matrix" as a "beer sipper" and "good hang."Bloomberg/Getty ImagesAfter Mark Zuckerberg drank a Guinness, tech bros can't stop talking about drinking beer.One X user created the "Cheeky Pint Benchmark," while another ranked execs on a "beer matrix."Cigarettes are in focus, too, after Palantir's CFO said some AI researchers are taking up smoking. After Mark Zuckerberg’s cautious-looking sip of stout on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s "Cheeky Pint" podcast became a social-media talking point, a new debate has emerged: which tech leaders can actually hold their drink?Soon after Zuckerberg's much-memed appearance, ETN, a tech podcast, built what it called the "Cheeky Pint Benchmark," publishing a leaderboard of guests' Guinness consumption, measured to the nearest sixth of a pint.Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, currently tops the chart after drinking three full pints during his appearance on Collison’s…