FWIW, found this useful thread 2011 HN thread about the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056 Though

FWIW, found this useful thread 2011 HN thread about the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056 Though it's not just about trying to grab rights. Here's a blog post the founder last year, which describes in detail what he was doing from 2016 to June 2017: https://blog.usejournal.com/how-we-made-1m-in-3-months-the-story-of-morning-recovery-86b7c8a64cd0 https://blog.usejournal.com/how-we-made-1m-in-3-months-the-s... He sounds like a hard worker and seems to have been at enough places (Facebook and Uber) to know not to mix hobby with work. But it sounds like he really hustled over the year to the point of his startup being a second job. He doesn't say anything more about Tesla, but I guess I'm assuming his startup passion couldn't have been a total secret. And despite his likely well-paid role at Tesla, they seemed to have tolerated his work-life balance to the point that he got to pick the time of quitting. Yes, I agree that's the way things should be, that companies don't have any influence what you do once you've put in your 40/week. But that doesn't seem to be the status quo in tech, especially at highly ambitious companies like Tesla