[kozikow]

I think many founders have some buried deep worry like this.

You end up fundraising, preparing forecasts and budgets for investors for the next X years, attending conferences, working with marketing on PR, dealing with unglamorous problems that are not part of anyone's job but need to get done and someone else doing it would impact morale too much. It's lucky if you find 1-2 days a week for "deep work" given constant context switching.

Even if you work 2 shifts you can't sometimes match the level of being necessary for day-to-day operations as "regular" employees. But you own orders of magnitude more equity.