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In reality, I believe that Frind probably works at least as much as any of us, otherwise I doubt his startup would be successful at all. However, at some point

In reality, I believe that Frind probably works at least as much as any of us, otherwise I doubt his startup would be successful at all. However, at some point he realized that he could garner a lot of free press by pretending to be lazy. My point was to revile someone who consciously puts out the image that running a startup involves just being lazy and cashing checks. I think it continues to perpetuate a very false but popular view of what startup life is like. People here at HN upvote this because they know that running a startup involves hard work and meager rewards.

GHFigs 17y ago
at some point he realized that he could garner a lot of free press by pretending to be lazy. See, this is your opinion, not fact. If you have facts, please cite them. Otherwise you're just smearing, as I said. being lazy Working less is not laziness when there is less work to be done. If Frind (or anyone) feels like they're meeting their goals in a certain amount of working time, how are they being lazy? What is being slacked-off on? Should they invent some new work to do just to meet some arbitrary time devotion quota? Nonsense. I think it continues to perpetuate a very false but popular view of what startup life is like. Frind himself has written about how he worked his ass off in the beginning. But 2009 is not the beginning. PlentyOfFish has been around since 2003. Are we still calling that a startup? I think it would be insane to perpetuate the notion that "startup life" should be something you maintain over six years, even after your company becomes wildly successful. People here at HN upvote this because they know that running a startup involves hard work and meager rewards. I sincrely wish I could believe people here were that conscious of the rationale behind their voting.

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In reality, I believe that Frind probably works at least as much as any of us, otherwise I doubt his startup would be successful at all. However, at some point

by MicahWedemeyer 17y ago

GHFigs 17y ago
at some point he realized that he could garner a lot of free press by pretending to be lazy. See, this is your opinion, not fact. If you have facts, please cite them. Otherwise you're just smearing, as I said. being lazy Working less is not laziness when there is less work to be done. If Frind (or anyone) feels like they're meeting their goals in a certain amount of working time, how are they being lazy? What is being slacked-off on? Should they invent some new work to do just to meet some arbitrary time devotion quota? Nonsense. I think it continues to perpetuate a very false but popular view of what startup life is like. Frind himself has written about how he worked his ass off in the beginning. But 2009 is not the beginning. PlentyOfFish has been around since 2003. Are we still calling that a startup? I think it would be insane to perpetuate the notion that "startup life" should be something you maintain over six years, even after your company becomes wildly successful. People here at HN upvote this because they know that running a startup involves hard work and meager rewards. I sincrely wish I could believe people here were that conscious of the rationale behind their voting.