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Venture capitalist Harry Stebbings faced a wave of backlash in June after urging European startup founders to increase their work hours — but he now admits there’s some room for nuance when applying his mantra.

Stebbings, founder of 20VC, a firm managing $650 million in funds, advised founders on LinkedIn last month that “7 days a week is the required velocity to win right now,” to compete with startups in Silicon Valley and China.

The post went viral, to Stebbings’ surprise, and sparked a debate on whether China’s brutal “996” work culture — which means working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week — is needed in Europe.

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 41 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

He probably "works" more than that, because for him his "work" looks like riding a private jet, golfing with business associates, fancy lunches and dinners, or sending emails from his phone on the beach.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 28 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"I work this hard, everyone should work this hard!" -- someone has no idea what hard work is.

[–] Asafum 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Oh oh oh, they have one for this!

"HaRd WoRk DoEs NoT EqUaL VaLuAbLe WoRk!!"

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 8 points 20 hours ago

"As you can clearly see on this chart I made of the value I put on things, the value I put on my own work is the highest, and the rest of you are very low, and you should feel bad that I don't value your work! What are you going to do about it? Work harder? Haha, that will just make my value go up even higher!"