What would you do if you had hundreds of millions in the bank? Go back to work is probably not on the top of the list, but for a certain group of dot-com types, it’s more about staying relevant than staying rich.

Max Levchin, a young prince of what the NYT bills the “prematurely rich” class, is emblematic of a group of young, driven entrepreneurs who may already have struck it rich, but want more.

Levchin, of Paypal fame and fortune, is worth approximately $100MM but still works 15-18 hour days on his new company, Slide. Similarly, Levchin’s Paypal buddy, Peter Thiel, is back at work, too — at hedge fund Clarium Capital.

“For most of us, doing it again means surpassing what we’ve done previously,” Thiel tells the NYT. For

“On a grand scale I worry about … being irrelevant,” says Levchin in the video accompanying the NYT article. “I don’t want to wake up one morning … and be in this sort of ‘where are they now?’ file?”

Oddly enough, the deluge of money seems to cause feelings of self-doubt and irrelevancy. So dear readers, fire up that Excel and breathe in that stale office air — you have somewhere to be and something to do.