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This doesn't answer the spirit of your question, but regardless of the product/service, I would build a company with an emphasis on employee happiness (which al
by panorama 11y ago
This doesn't answer the spirit of your question, but regardless of the product/service, I would build a company with an emphasis on employee happiness (which also doubles as a recruiting tool):
- Full-remote
- 4 days/week instead of 5
- 2-3 months mandatory PTO
- Bootstrapped
This isn't lofty or anything, it's really what I aspire to do some day soon. To me there are few sane reasons to build a company predicated on the 40 hour work week in an era where work is intellectual and not based on quantifiable throughput (like working in an assembly line). Today, I would gladly take a 20% paycut to work 20% less per week (e.g. get Fridays off), and so I'd want to build a company in the same way.
I personally think the world is already headed in this direction (with remote work being the first big change).
- explodingtardis 11y agoThis is really interesting. I would love to hear more about how you would go about doing this. Mind if I email you?
- panorama 11y agoSure, my email is in my profile. I want to clarify that I don't think this will necessarily work for every company, especially high-growth, high-competition companies like Uber. Probably moreso for companies that acknowledge, due to market cap, that they will never be a billion dollar unicorn.
- bbcbasic 11y agoGood luck with this goal. I think we need more companies like this. Although to get a job as you are describing, I'd probably need to lose the lions share of my salary. Then I have to ask: Should I just contract in a cubicle job for 6 months, then take 12 months off for the same amount of money over 18 months as one of these 'nice' jobs?