Two things in the article that I found interesting but were not highlighted: > "But he soon found himself working that same intense pace until his wife asked h

Two things in the article that I found interesting but were not highlighted: > "But he soon found himself working that same intense pace until his wife asked him why he was working more and making less. She suggested taking Fridays off." So the central concept of this workplace format, around which this entire article is based, was the idea/inspiration of Ryan Carson's wife, whose full name is not even mentioned. (Her first name is Gill, but is her last name Carson? Unclear from the article.) Not that it's a purely original idea---other companies have done four-day workweeks before---but it was obviously one that hadn't occurred to this particular founder. Three cheers for Gill possibly-Carson! > "With Treehouse, Carson said he hopes to, again, buck conventional start-up culture, and not cash out by selling the company, the brass ring for most start-ups, but continue to run it as a sustainable business." Let's hope that also starts a trend. I'm so heartily sick of companies building a great product and actively recruiting user bases to use and love that product, only to shutter it and throw all the users under the bus when the founders achieve their real goal, which is getting the attention of Google or Facebook or whoever and getting acquihired or otherwise bought out. I know that individual founders and other startup workers will often (indeed almost always) say that they really do care about their users, but as a collective structural pattern in the way that SV startup culture seems to work, it sure doesn't look that way from afar. So three cheers for (the currently-stated intentions of) Ryan Carson!