@GergelyOrosz: Finally, someone said it on grindmaxxing: "There is a growing cliché in startup culture where founders and startups fee…
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A tweet from GergelyOrosz highlights a critique of the startup culture of performative overwork, quoting Karri Saarinen on how successful people rarely need to publicly display intensity.
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Finally, someone said it on grindmaxxing: “There is a growing cliché in startup culture where founders and startups feel the need to perform intensity publicly. How hard they work, how little they sleep (…) You almost never see this from the most successful companies/people.”
Karri Saarinen (@karrisaarinen): I get that business insurance is similar Nobel level type of pursuit as ground breaking physics and the Manhattan project. Hopefully the blast radius will be contained.
I don’t think the disagreement is whether hard problems require intensity.
The disagreement is whether
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