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I don't think YCombinator expects start-up founders to work only 40-50 hours a week. Paul Graham has written as follows: "Economically, you can think of a star
by Bostonian 11y ago
I don't think YCombinator expects start-up founders to work only 40-50 hours a week. Paul Graham has written as follows:
"Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast."
- papapra 11y agoBut if you take in account the statistics of how many start-ups succeed, that's not a great deal...
- pjc50 11y ago"If you work really hard, you should be able to produce a baby in only three months!"
- normloman 11y agoHow many YC start ups are so successful that the founders can retire after 4 years? Hardly any. PGs trying to dupe us.
- npizzolato 11y agoPG's incentives aren't aligned with those of a single founder. He can spout that nonsense advice because he invests in hundreds of companies. So he can give advice that will lead to the majority of companies working ridiculous hours and burning out, but if even one of them defy the odds and become a "unicorn", he makes money. You, as a founder, only have stake in a single company, not hundreds, so you should do things to make your company succeed.