Silicon Valley's hot new talking points: beer and cigarettes

Jensen Huang, among other tech figures, features on the "Tech Founder Beer Matrix" as a "beer sipper" and "good hang." Bloomberg/Getty Images After 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.