[morgante]

Honestly, I think you both have some good points.

Any manager who consistently pushes their team to work 50+ hours a week is probably not doing their job correctly.

On the other hand, in a startup particularly there are always certain cases where everyone has to work 80+ hours a week for a while (ex. this is the closing date of the acquisition; for every day you delay integration, we are losing thousands of dollars in revenue.)

Good startup management is threading the needle between the two.