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Can anybody name a few successful high-growth startups that were started by people with these kinds of family obligations? If it has happened before, that's ev
by dfabulich 11y ago
Can anybody name a few successful high-growth startups that were started by people with these kinds of family obligations?
If it has happened before, that's evidence that it can happen again, but if it's never happened before, that's evidence that it may be harder or impossible to form a high-growth startup under obligations like those.
(Disclaimer: high-growth startups are not the only kind of business worth forming. The director of engineering of a slow-growth enterprise software company may have a higher quality of life than a co-founder at an unprofitable unicorn.)
- throwaway_xx9 11y agoJBoss, EDS and Linksys or Netgear were started by guys in serious relationships where failure meant "get a real job to keep the fiance/wife." Elon Musk had wealth but rolled the dice while married and nearly ran out of cash funding his 3 companies.
- mej10 11y agoSpaceX and Tesla? But more seriously, some examples: http://priceonomics.com/founders-with-kids/ http://priceonomics.com/founders-with-kids/