Ilya Zhitomirskiy: 22-Year-Old Entrepreneur Commits Suicide

Ilya Zhitomirskiy an up and coming entrepreneur committed suicide this week. The tech community is devastated and addresses the pressures of trying to break through into the business. Ilya Zhitomirskiy is not a name that probably sounds familiar, but in a few years he could have been the next Mark Zuckerberg. He and a few of his techie friends were working hard on a project called, Diaspora. And to them it was about more than making money. In September of last year, Zhitomiriskiy told New York Magazine that Diaspora was a project of pure passion. “There’s something deeper than making money off stuff. Being a part of creating stuff for the universe is awesome.” So what cause this seemingly ambitious and brilliant techie to take his own life? ?Burnout is one thing but serious depression is another altogether,” writes Bill Patrianakos on Hacker News, a sort of digital water-cooler for the tech industry. “The pressure of starting a small local business is enough to drive a person mad. Just think about the guys being covered… the widely known ones, the ‘stars’ of the tech startup world.” Though not a celebrity infused post, this story hits home for me. I work [...]

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