I don't know Jason Calacanis, his personality or anything. His "I'm never tired, keep up with me" is.... odd to say the least.
Nevertheless, I do agree with his "I want to surround myself with people who can work at my pace, work 80 hours a week not caring about life balance." Maybe not at a large company, but at an early stage startup I WANT people around me who are working hard and determined to make their product successful because they care about it.
What's so bad about what Calacanis said? 70-80 hour weeks are not unheard of in the startup world...
If you're gonna expect me to work eighty hours a week, there'd better be a seriously large payoff. In particular, it'd have to be much more than twice what I could get by working forty hours a week; it'd have to be at least four times as much.
I don't get the impression that he's offering that much extra value to his employees.
Please don't introduce a fair and logical argument in this thread or you will be voted down by the SEOs who have 20 astroturf accounts designed to slam me.
When you say the types of things you say, and behave the way you do, the internet will react in a very predictable fashion.
It's nothing personal. It's a reality that I think you need to accept, and it's clear that you haven't because you still say things like 'keep hating on me...I love it'.
You don't. You are just saying that.
Saying things like that, makes you look like the kid on the playground that bullies everybody and when one day he gets kicked in the balls pretends like it doesn't hurt and goes above and beyond to show that it didn't hurt, but goes behind the locker and cries.
Nevertheless, I do agree with his "I want to surround myself with people who can work at my pace, work 80 hours a week not caring about life balance." Maybe not at a large company, but at an early stage startup I WANT people around me who are working hard and determined to make their product successful because they care about it.
What's so bad about what Calacanis said? 70-80 hour weeks are not unheard of in the startup world...