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Young Tech Bros Are Embracing Celibacy in Favor of the All-Consuming Drive for Wealth

Joe Wilkins

created: Jan. 19, 2026, 8:32 p.m. | updated: Jan. 29, 2026, 7:54 p.m.

For Mahir Laul, founder of HR software startup Velric, the typically youthful whirlwind of sex and romance takes a backseat to Slack notifs and fundraising rounds. “There’s two things that I care about the most: the gym and my work,” Laul told Business Insider in an interview. Yun told BI he met his current girlfriend early into his education at Stanford. “You’ve always heard the mentality, ‘behind every successful man, there’s the right woman,'” Laul told BI. More on tech bros: Tech Billionaires Are Starting Private Cities to Escape the United States

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