Silicon Valley and sleep deprivation

Apr 03, 2014, 05:19 PM

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Sleep would be high on the list of things most of us wish we had more of -especially, the technology wizards of Silicon Valley.

Ninety percent of US tech startups fail. And that, according to one theory doing the rounds, is because the people running them suffer from a lack not of funds but of sleep.

SwizecTeller, himself a California programmer; and Forbes technology journalist Michael Thomsen discuss the issues.