Salvador Dauvergen, a serial entrepreneur from California, bustled around a co-working space in Bali, Indonesia on a Monday morning greeting familiar faces. He was wearing a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops — or as he referred to it, the Bali business suit.
His surrounding is casual, even by entrepreneurial standards, with open-air work spaces overlooking a rice field, hammocks and a room for air conditioning. Outside of the office is a street — filled with inexpensive massage places and fresh smoothie shops — which leads to the Monkey Forest.
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Burnt out by Silicon Valley’s lifestyle, Dauvergen recently relocated to Bali to begin his next start-up in the food industry, about which he’s hesitant to offer specifics since he has yet to launch.
“I have the same work day in terms of hours, but my stress level is incredibly lower compared to back home,” he said. “I talk to a lot of my friends in the start-up world and tell them this is the new frontier.”
Dauvergen said he thinks there is “app fatigue” in the U.S., which is one of many reasons he set his eyes on Southeast Asia for his next venture. While his long-term…