Reid Hoffman on why the best founders don’t have work-life balance

One of the classic questions is balance. And I actually think founders have no balance. One of the funniest conversations I ever had was with a governor of Colorado. He was like, we're going to attract really great entrepreneurs here because we have this balanced lifestyle. Literally, if I ever hear a founder talking about, oh, this is how I have a balanced life, and so forth, they're not committed to winning. And so the only really great founders are like, I am going to literally pour everything into doing this. Now, it only may be for a couple years. I may do this for a while, then go do all things. But while I'm doing this, I am unbalanced at this thing. It's not to say you don't take breaks, not to say you don't, you know, go on dates or whatever else, but you're super focused on this because it's really hard, and there's lots of ways to die. And that's the reason why the jumping off the cliff metaphor is one of the ones that I classically use.