• Paradigm CEO Matt Huang feels like he’s “running the X-Men Academy”. While other leaders complain about their Gen Z new hires, the $12 billion crypto company chief is going against the grain and promoting them into the C-suite.

It’s no secret that Gen Z often gets flak for showing up late to work, ghosting job interviews, refusing to do put in any overtime for free, and demanding senior titles and work-life balance before they’ve really earned it.

Some bosses are fed up—firing fresh-faced Gen Z grads just months in and branding the whole cohort “unprofessional.”

Even Gen Z workers have described themselves as the hardest generation to work with. 

“They create an absurd amount of chaos sometimes and you want to pull your hair out,” echoes Matt Huang, the cofounder of the $12 billion crypto investment firm Paradigm.

“But then you see what they can do and it’s like, holy crap,” he told Colossus Review. “Nobody else in the world could do that.”

Case in point: Paradigm’s first hire, Charlie Noyes, was a 19-year-old MIT dropout who walked into his first 10 a.m. meeting five hours late. Fast forward to today, and Noyes is a general partner at the crypto company at just 25.

He identified MEV as a pivotal blockchain issue in 2020 and became the lead investor in Flashbots, whose infrastructure now touches nearly every transaction on Ethereum and has established critical market rules for the $450 billion ecosystem.

In 2020, Noyes was the one who saw MEV as a critical blockchain issue, leading Paradigm to become the lead investor in Flashbots—a company whose infrastructure now touches nearly every transaction on Ethereum and has established key market rules in the $450 billion ecosystem.

And Noyes isn’t the only bright young mind making waves at Paradigm.

Georgios Konstantopoulos, the firm’s CTO,  joined the company just two years after graduating college in 2018 and has since become one of crypto’s most prolific engineers. Then there’s the developer known only by his Discord handle, transmissions11, whom Paradigm reportedly found while he was still in high school.

“Sometimes I feel like I’m running the X-Men Academy,” Huang jokes, referencing the eccentric minds on his team—young mutants whose exceptional skills make all the chaos worth it.

Fortune has reached out to Huang for comment.

Like most generations did before them—millennials will remember being labeled work-shy snowflakes before climbing the corporate ranks into management—Gen Zers have gained a reputation for being difficult to work with.