Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

Is burnout all about the hours or the value?

5 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Charles Hudson. This content was uploaded by Charles Hudson. This is a YouTube video titled "Is burnout all about the hours or the value?" created on December 5, 2025, discussing personal experiences with burnout and the importance of purpose and value in work, illustrated by an anecdote about organizing a successful Twitter Spaces event.

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And in my personal experience, even if I was working a lot, there were times that I was so energized because I had purpose and it added value. For example, Mia, we were talking about this a little, little bit earlier a couple of weeks ago. There was a week where the former CTO of Coinbase Balogy, he had posted a list of startups, and my startup was on the list, the startup I was working at at the time. And I got this idea that I was going to reach out to all the organizations on that list and. And within a week and host this huge roundtable on Twitter spaces. And I had to work a lot of hours and reach out to a lot of people and do a lot of relationship building, and it was incredibly intense. But I had purpose in a way that added a lot of value. And in the end, we actually got Balaji on. We got 14 organizations and 5,000 people tuned in. It was like such a proud moment for me. I think that if that event hadn't made sense, though, and I was working all those hours and it didn't happen in a way that was meaningful, and there were definitely many see events and initiatives like that at startups I've worked at, then I think I would have felt more burnout. But in this case, with the Twitter space, I think that it added value in a way that I love. I love relationship building. I love connecting with people. I love learning and asking questions and.