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by globalise83 657 days ago
At a purely financial level, making their company the most important thing in their life for a period of maybe 5-10 years means that they have a good chance at not having to work at all for the rest of their life. Doing 5-10 years of overtime for someone else falls quite short of that in most cases.
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“… they have a good chance at not having to work at all for the rest of their life.”

We must have different expectations for the failure rate of startups.

Startup founders are probably never pessimists.
Paranoid optimists?