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> “The way I justify a six-hour commute is having the ability to have all the things that I want," he explains. I just don't see having the point in having "al
by amyjess 9y ago
> “The way I justify a six-hour commute is having the ability to have all the things that I want," he explains.
I just don't see having the point in having "all the things that [you] want" if you don't have the time to enjoy them. Who has time to enjoy your money if you don't get home till 21:00?
I've actually known some people who live in one city and work in another (between Dallas and Austin), but they did it by renting a second apartment in the city where they work and living there during the week, only commuting home on the weekends, which they always did by car.
- jccc 9y agoI would guess because he's in the middle of building his company and raising his kids, and doesn't plan to keep this arrangement forever.
- mfrykman 9y agoI would also guess that he can actually afford a house for his children to grow up in down in Burbank. I wonder if Motiv subsidies the Surf Air membership. Moving a company from LA to SF is expensive - maybe that was part of the price payed to keep the CTO. I'd also point out that it possibly was not his decision to move the company.
- jccc 9y agoHe addresses this in the video: For whatever personal reasons, uprooting his family and moving them is just not an option right now.