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by ryuio
6208 days ago
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This is a great writeup. I have also come to disagree with the specific PG essay mentioned in the post. Entrepreneurship needs to be more sustainable than what is made out in the current literature. It shouldn't really be a 2 year binge in the hope of a cashout. The biggest companies take a lot more than that and if you really love doing it there is no reason you should be looking for an exit. A long term commitment also requires entrepreneurship to suit your other life requirements. A startup isn't really worth its exit. |
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Seems like in this case, the founders can "exit" into the new, big company that grew out of the seed they germinated and nurtured during their two years of insane coding and sacrifice. The seed grows roots, and the roots find purchase, and the leaves unfurl, and the thing grows like kudzu, and the founders (if they don't just want to retire) get to manage and shape the growth, and hire lots of people to help them, so they can stop sacrificing their existences so completely, and resume enjoying life.
A startup isn't really worth its exit.
Do you know this from experience?
I guess what I'm saying is that the steady state of "sustainable" work is unlikely to produce great startups; and the steady state of complete self sacrifice is probably a waste of one's consciousness. The real, productive, and fun dynamic may be in pursuing a set of punctuated equilibria -- brief epochs of spastic productivity, which punctuate longer spans of "sustainable" exploration of the results of the last round of spastic effort.
Then, when you get bored of exploring the ramifications of the last round of effort, get spastic again! Shake it up, and see what the new world you've made for yourself means.