If you look at the history of Google [1], it's pretty clear that Larry and Sergey didn't work themselves into the ground. On the contrary, they did things like

If you look at the history of Google [1], it's pretty clear that Larry and Sergey didn't work themselves into the ground. On the contrary, they did things like spending an entire day driving around Palo Alto taking pictures with a handheld camera. The reason Google was successful was because of the creativity of the founders, which was nurtured by their playful attitude to work. Marissa Mayer seems to have completely the wrong idea about success, and Yahoo provides proof of it. [1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/04/25/google_s_larry_page_the_co_founder_s_untold_story.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/04/25/googl...