My son Darren works for Jason at Mahalo. He is too busy working to comment here...so I will for him :-)
Darren works 6 or 7 days a week because he loves what he is doing, and is learning a ton from Jason. Yes, he is tough and has high expectations. But, Jason is the best mentor and teacher around.
Jason isn't for everyone, but if you want to rise to the top really fast...a ride with Jason will get you there.
Don, I am assuming this is Don Dodge, I won't debate that he can teach you a lot, and be a great mentor and possibly an awesome angel.
It's the attitude that he has - which we could excuse if his accomplishments were as big as he makes them seem like they are.
I am not diminishing the fact that he built a company from scratch and sold it to AOL for $30M. That's not a small feat, so don't get me wrong.
But, that happens almost every day in many industries. There are countless stories like that, and we don't see all of those CEOs acting like they are God's gift to technology. Jason acts like that, and quite frankly, when you compare him to his peers (the YouTube guys, Andreesen, Joshua Schacter, Max Levchin, etc.) - he comes up short.
As has been said so many times, the only people that I think has the right to act like that are Jobs, Gates, Bezos, etc. And they don't.
Darren works 6 or 7 days a week because he loves what he is doing, and is learning a ton from Jason. Yes, he is tough and has high expectations. But, Jason is the best mentor and teacher around.
Jason isn't for everyone, but if you want to rise to the top really fast...a ride with Jason will get you there.