Tech's Cheeky Pint Benchmark: 29-year-old Irish founder tops drinking chart above Musk
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-10-16
- After Will O'Brien (29, Irish, Ulysses founder) joined the 20VC podcast for a pint with Harry Stebbings and Chris Sacca to discuss subsea robotics, someone built the "Cheeky Pint Benchmark": Guinness-equivalent pints/hour across 39 podcast guests, adjusted for ABV and episode length.
- O'Brien ranks #1 at 3.31 pints/hour, far ahead of Des Traynor (1.40); Elon Musk sits 9th (1.08), Satya Nadella 1.01, while Brian Armstrong (0.13), Sundar Pichai (0.14) and Marc Andreessen (0.16) bring up the bottom.
- The episode itself covers operating robots 1,500m underwater, seagrass storing 20% of ocean carbon, green tape slowing restoration, and verticalized hardware manufacturing in hard-tech startups.
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