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Just commenting the overtime in startups. there is legitimate overtime and negative overtime. it’s like HDL and LDL for cholesterol. Good overtime is when you try to go above and beyond building a solid product, like add-ons or bells and whistles that tend to make ur devlierable look better.
Bad overtime comes from poor planning, bad estimates, working with C players instead of A players, scope creep or simply a bad architect/architecture.
I worked 4yrs in startup that got acquired for 200MUS$ during the heydays and seldom worked overtime…
Bottom line, if things are predictable and well thought in advance, there should be no overtime but that’s ideal.
Let’s keep in mind here that the startup concept itself requires research, innovation and bleeding edge technology, therefore a minimum extra investment -be it in time or money- is required…as opposed to working for a large cap, where everything is already in place including the date of the x-mas party.
Napo, I totally agree with you. Not all overtime is negative. I guess it all depends on how well the company plans and how they go on about overtime when it is needed.
And regarding the startup you were in and was sold, can you give any hints on which one that was?
Just out of curiosity 😉