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This man is a cancer on society

To be perfectly honest, if a CEO is truly working 80+ hours a week, you almost have to wonder where they would find the time to write walls of text to rejected candidates and to play around on social media.

Granted, I suspect a lot of higher level folks are like the ones I know, they're very generous with what they qualify as "working hours" for themselves. For instance, "I work 12 hour days" translates to I leave for work at 7 a.m. and I don't get home until 7 p.m." so basically they consider their travel to/from the office, the 2 hour lunch break + gym time, picking up kids after school, etc to be part of their working hours. Or if they're away from home for 3 days at a conference, that's 70+ hours of work right there.

And the thing is, I don't completely disagree with any of that, it's just that they tend to take the opposite stance when it comes to people actually doing the work. If you're not sitting in front of your computer or on the phone making calls, then you're not working. Your commute to/from work doesn't count. Your lunch break doesn't count. Your travel time to and from the conference doesn't count for your 38.5 hour minimum billable time for that week.

Sign up with this guy. Work nights and weekends for three years. Then he cashes out, you get 30.000 shares of worthless "stocks" and a severance notice becauser he decided to pivot . Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

Yep, sounds like fun. :|

I just want a stable job working for a co-op or a local government where I make good money, go home at a reasonable hour and have nice benefits. Startup culture sounds like hell. And i wouldn't begrudge them for it, but they keep winding up buying governments and convincing everyone to function like that

I love the bit about how people who work for early startups have to work long hours for little pay so that the owner of the company can walk away with a highly successful business that pays them handsomely while you get maybe a decent wage if you're lucky, or if the company doesn't fire you when they realize they can hire three people for half the pay that you were getting by the time the company is actually making a profit.

The good thing about startups, even the ceo can do long hours without any rest without a team!

Ah, the future value of equity ... sacrifice your life on spec that the venture will succeed when most don't and that your boss won't find a way to fuck you over of it does. Bearing in mind that the more money is on the table, the more likely it is that your boss will try to screw you out of it.

If you want to go to Vegas, go to Vegas. Do an 80-hour stint, see if you get rich, and if you fail then go home. Don't spend years at some shitty company run by an asshole.

The grammar alone is enough of a red flag.

Put down your pitchforks, people. Self-confessed fabrication: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bgoldstein3_founder-career-activity-7354574299103436800-HpOn

But you can bring them back out for being such a tool, he still deserves it.

I work 80+ hr weeks and it never feels like work because I love it.

In other words, this guy works not for the money, but because it's what he'd do even if he wasn't paid. Sounds like he could afford higher taxes.

"Startup" is just short hand for "self-absorbed shitbird(s) playing fast and loose with other people's money".

If you own the business, work as much as you want. If you have employees then be fucking reasonable

I've done this shit for decades. Decades.

I'm exhausted. It's tiring. I've been with startup after startup after startup.

I've vested equity after equity into more equity.

I've made $0 off that equity over nearly 3 decades.

My health suffers because of the stress and strain of the jobs I've been forced to put my body through over the years and there's no coming back from that.

My mental health is at a constant tipping point during my every day of work and I wonder just how much longer I can even manage to put in "regular" hours before I just curl up into a ball and wait for the sweet embrace of death.

I've lost decades of my life, thrown away in offices, cubicles, and shitty pizza party meetings to celebrate meaningless achievements that are wiped out in the next quarterly planning session.

Brett Goldstein can go fuck himself with a sandpaper infused dildo.

Guy makes CRM.

If you're not willing to work yourself to death.... We don't want you

I wish someone wrote a "How to run a company ethically for dummies" book.

Because I want one

The thing is, as a society we keep supporting these scumbags. If we didn't continue to line their pockets, this would start to go away.