[Beretta_Vexee]

Don't take your health and lifestyle advice from start-up founders, episode 36. Elizabeth Holmes writes the same kind of nonsense.

It's just an attempt to pass themselves off as exceptional beings who owe their success solely to their talent and iron discipline.

I don't know anyone who can keep going in the long term by neglecting their sleep and their physical and mental health.

[dbish]

Most of these founders are performative. It's like the rash of cringey overproduced startup videos, just meant to try to get eyeballs in a time where sadly startup founders are trying less to be good at tech and more to be cluely-like marketers. I hope to see us get back to people who love tech and building and let those folks move back to different fields.

[yepitwas]

My least favorite genre of this are the ones who crow about working 60-70 hours per week and still making time for family or whatever, but it's because they're paying to make 30-40 hours of work that ordinary wage-earning folks do, go away. Laundry, lawn maintenance, getting the car in for an oil change, child care, running errands, cooking, doing your own accounting, waiting on hold to deal with erroneous medical bills, fixing that toilet that keeps running, cleaning the gutters, patching that hole a damn woodpecker put in your siding—people for whom all these things are purely optional activities that they can and do pay others to take care of, will act like they're just such hard workers, while actually working, in total, less than their employees.

Drives me up a wall.

[stego-tech]

Gotta promote bootstrapping somehow, because you just know most of these folks won’t see one thin dime from their equity, and those that do will be worshipped as visionaries while conveniently ignoring the piled masses of unsuccessful bodies behind them.

[jrs235]

Right? Like if one's identity is found in you work and one doesn't step back there's a good chance they think amphetamines are a good thing one should take to stay awake and work more.

[oulipo2]

100% this

[Iulioh]

Well, in what other way could they justifify the compensation they ask for?

[dbish]

What compensation are you talking about? Most founders make very little.