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When startup teams sacrifice present time for uncertain future money

Our startup team works insane hours because we're all equity holders and everyone acts like time doesn't matter since we're building something together, but I'm starting to resent that my actual life is the price we're paying for everyone else's vision of future wealth.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group has conflated shared ownership with shared willingness to indefinitely defer life in service of potential wealth.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Time and money — the fundamental exchange?”

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