Short monologue (YouTube transcript) describing an extreme work ethic when starting a company. The speaker recounts living in a small office, sleeping on a couch, showering at the YMCA, sharing one computer, and working seven days a week — arguing that working ~100 hours vs 50 hours yields roughly double the output over a year.
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Depending upon how well you want to do and particularly if you're starting a company, you need to work super hard. So what does super hard mean? When my brother and I were starting our first company, instead of getting an apartment, we just rented a small office and we slept on the couch and we showered at the YMCA and we're so hot up we had one computer so the website was up during the day and I was coding at night seven days a week all the time. I briefly had a girlfriend in that period and in order to be with me she has to sleep in the office. Work hard like every waking hour. That's the thing. I would say if you, particularly if you're starting a company and if you do the simple math, if somebody else is working 50 hours and you're working 100, you'll get twice as done as much done in the course of a year as the other company.