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While long hours can't be a goal, I worry that it's easy to mislead. As a descriptive matter, creating Stripe required obsessive intensity. Maybe better founders could have worked "smarter", but I do know that long hours were needed for *us* to build something great.https://twitter.com/alexmuench/status/1135634277058715648 …
"Maybe better founders could have..." Presumably Patrick knows what he means by that, but in case it's not clear, he's describing the empty set. If Patrick and John Collison had to work long hours to build something great, you will too.
I think this is a false dichotomy and that twitter (obviously) isn't a great place for nuance. I don't expect to be able to launch a succesful hypergrowth, venture backed startup on forty hours a week. (1/2)
At the same time, I don't know that the median engineer at a Fortune50 tech company should be expected to give up their nights and weekends for an arbitrary release. And that probably isn't the culture we want, either. (2/2)
As an empirical matter, it fascinates me that pro athletes are mostly revered for their obsessive competitiveness and work ethic (Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods) but in business it's often viewed a character defect.
It's not always viewed as a flaw though. And there's a definite pattern to the people who see it as a flaw and the people who don't.
Apple makes , designs and builds a little more than a payment system software btw . Patrick , Can you design a workstation computer ?
I guess it all depends on your definition of "something great".
Everyone wants something for nothing. It’s ok to choose to not build something great. Life can have other meaning. The problem isn’t with wanting to work fewer hours. It’s the entitled expectation that you can build great things with some kind of shortcut. There isn’t one.
In the early stages — When the startup is your identity it is your mistress and your particular war you are waging. If the hours are not reflected I question how much change you actually want to make. Systemic Change requires obsession
Passion and commitment take precedence. Technical competence can be gained, or sourced.
I agree with you Paul. I was reflecting on Apples level of business execution and it'd make for one of the finest case studies on Earth. Will the next generation of business operators do better, I'm sure some will have to. Is work-life balance the next great perk? Also yes.
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