Austin and Spencer worked 9 AM to 3 AM, seven days a week for a year after joining Y Combinator. They moved into a house 100 yards from their Brickyard workspace, driven by a tweet about the community. The speaker calls it a monster work ethic that defines the startup grind.
The product's great. The founders are greater. Austin and Spencer are really unique. I mean, they're just monsters. I mean, when they moved to Brickyard, they came outta YC, they saw a tweet or something about Brickyard. Uh, Spencer got on the phone, he is like, look, we're in, our raise is done, but we'll take capital from you 'cause we just want somewhere where we can just put our head down and grind. And we were like, yeah. Can you be here tomorrow? Like, it was just immediately, this was not a normal founder. Yeah. And, and so anyway, they came here, Spencer and Austin, 7 days a week. Okay. They live in, we, we bought a, a, a house next to Brickyard that a lot of our founders live in. It's like 100 yards away from Brickyard. Mm-hmm. Live in Brickyard. They would, they would come into work every morning at 9:00 AM and they would leave at 3:00 AM, 7 days a week for a year.
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