Well said. Frankly I can't figure out why anybody would want to jump onto the 80-hour week insanity mill that is the Silicon Vally definition of "Startup". It

Well said. Frankly I can't figure out why anybody would want to jump onto the 80-hour week insanity mill that is the Silicon Vally definition of "Startup". It just doesn't seem like a good use of your time. Either you burn yourself out with nothing to show, or you oversucceed to the point where you have to figure out how to work your life around owning a private jet. There's got to be some middle ground. How about instead I work 20 hour weeks building something that will pay my rent initially, pay for my winter house on that nice point break in Oz after 5 years, then spoil my kids rotten in 20. That's a payoff more in line with my lifestyle, and I get to keep living my life in the meantime.