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It probably wouldn't have worked out well anyway. Your cofounder would have been upset the first time you spent time with your kids instead of working. Founde
by jedberg 5y ago
It probably wouldn't have worked out well anyway. Your cofounder would have been upset the first time you spent time with your kids instead of working. Founders need to be in roughly the same life stage for things to work out, or if not, have a very strong understanding of what the other person's work life balance is. Or at least the one without kids needs to have very involved hobbies to spend time on when you spend time with your kids!
- robotresearcher 5y agoEric Schmidt, Larry & Sergey are a counterexample. (But a runaway success is a poor model for expected outcome.)
- jedberg 5y agoHow are they a counterexample? Larry and Sergey were both grad students in the same place in life. Eric was hired after they had funding and profits and was not a cofounder.
- robotresearcher 5y agoAh, thanks for the correction. I didn't recall there was 4 years between startup and Schmidt joining. He says in the linked interview there were ~150 employees when he joined. https://www.freshworks.com/hrms/eric-schmidt-talks-about-what-worked-and-what-didnt-while-scaling-up-google-part-i-blog/ https://www.freshworks.com/hrms/eric-schmidt-talks-about-wha...