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> I don’t want you in the office 100 hours a week. Actually, I don’t even want you in the office 40 hours a week — I want you out with customers But when yo

> I don’t want you in the office 100 hours a week. Actually, I don’t even want you in the office 40 hours a week — I want you out with customers But when you’re home. When you’re out to dinner. When you’re relaxing at the beach. Even (sorry) when you’re with your family. I want you obsessing about your company. My last startup we met with an angel investor who was like this. The money isn't worth it, we turned him down, and ended up going with someone more reasonable. Reasonable people attract connections and connections are great for your startup. And we all did pretty well in the end... without all the unhealthy hyped-up stress caused by working for someone like this. Investors are your boss, make sure you like them. If you have a good idea, hell if you have just an OK idea and can execute... people will line up to give you money.

nugget 10y ago
I dislike the majority of his post but most of the people I've known to achieve ''success'' at the highest levels spent years in this zone where they obsessed near 24/7 about their work. It sucks to write that family comes second to work. But if you want to build (and run) a billion dollar company, or become a neurosurgeon, or be a SEAL team commander - then, for awhile at least, it's probably true, and I'm not sure we do anyone any favors by pretending otherwise.
cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
> And we all did pretty well in the end He's not looking for "pretty well". He's looking for unicorns, and ask any investor who's looking for a unicorn if they would fund a founder who wants a chill life with work life balance. Good luck.
dagw 10y ago
we all did pretty well in the end I agree with you, but he does make it pretty clear that he is not interested in doing "pretty well". He even says that if a $50m exit is your definition of success then he doesn't want to talk to you.

nugget 10y ago

I dislike the majority of his post but most of the people I've known to achieve ''success'' at the highest levels spent years in this zone where they obsessed near 24/7 about their work. It sucks to write that family comes second to work. But if you want to build (and run) a billion dollar company, or become a neurosurgeon, or be a SEAL team commander - then, for awhile at least, it's probably true, and I'm not sure we do anyone any favors by pretending otherwise.

cocktailpeanuts 10y ago

> And we all did pretty well in the end He's not looking for "pretty well". He's looking for unicorns, and ask any investor who's looking for a unicorn if they would fund a founder who wants a chill life with work life balance. Good luck.

dagw 10y ago

we all did pretty well in the end I agree with you, but he does make it pretty clear that he is not interested in doing "pretty well". He even says that if a $50m exit is your definition of success then he doesn't want to talk to you.