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Their friends are making $100 million. Everyone else is wondering how to catch up.
Venture capitalist Jenny Xiao noticed a change in her Bay Area social circles as the artificial intelligence boom swelled in recent years.

“When I met these people back five years ago, they lived in the shittiest apartments and they were cheap AI researchers,” she said.
“Now every other weekend someone’s in Hawaii [or] vacationing in Switzerland.”

Xiao is among those in tech preparing…

Their friends are making $100 million. Everyone else is wondering how to catch up.
As SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI go public at historic valuations and new millionaires and billionaires are minted, other tech workers worry about their futures.