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> In Germany holidays are sacred, and you won't generally find people putting in tons of overtime to get a product off the ground Hmh. That’s only 10% slower i
by heavenlyblue 6y ago
> In Germany holidays are sacred, and you won't generally find people putting in tons of overtime to get a product off the ground
Hmh. That’s only 10% slower if you assume Americans never take holidays (which is probably not true at all).
I don’t really believe startupers work as much as they claim to however, because you are usually useless at 16 hours a day for a month.
How much did it take Elon Musk to go callig people pedos of working heavy hours and sleeping in the office?
- skohan 6y agoIt's not about the hours as much as the attitude toward work. The pace of work is just slower in general in Germany in my experience: when there's a conflict between a deadline and capacity in Germany, the deadline gets pushed. In US, capacity gets increased. Don't get me wrong, I think the German way of working is way healthier and more sustainable, but everything has a trade-off, and the leave-it-all-on-the-table mentality of American startups seems more conducive to getting an innovative project with difficult technical problems off the ground in my experience.
- username90 6y agoSweden manage to create quite a lot while keeping above average European worker protections. We say that having lots of protections makes people more willing to take risk since worst case they will have to live on state aid for a while. Likely Daniel Ek want to make the other European countries as good at creating successful companies as Sweden is.