The Importance of Hard Work in Startups

You need to work super hard.

When my brother and I were starting our first company, instead of getting an apartment,

we just rented a small office and we slept on the couch.

And we showered at the YMCA.

And we're so hot up, we had just one computer.

So the website was up during the day, and I was coding at night, seven days a week,

all the time.

And I sort of briefly had a girlfriend in that period.

And in order to be with me, she had to sleep in the office.

So work hard, like, every waking hour.

That's the thing I would say.

If somebody else is working 50 hours and you're working 100, you'll get twice as much done

in the course of a year as the other company.