At least the VCs seem to be back from holiday. But I always think about this twitter story from Jack Morris when I hear about AI startups in Europe:

> their plan. to be the first to market with a certain type of multilingual model

> early in year: incorporate. start building

> hired an awesome team by march

> scraped / acquired all the data by june

> critical infra almost ready by july

> then comes august

> entire team goes on vacation for the entire month

> while they're gone, at least three competitors launch models

> team returns in september

> office vibe completely dead

> startup pivots to consulting