He's known for 2 projects, rails and basecamp. Both are almost 10 years old now (if not older) and have armies of people who probably do most of the programming

He's known for 2 projects, rails and basecamp. Both are almost 10 years old now (if not older) and have armies of people who probably do most of the programming. I doubt he's doing 60 hour coding weeks any more, probably not even 40 hours. I bet that having large amounts of money also takes pressure off.