There is a persistent, unspoken belief that entrepreneurs must work 70-100 hours per week in order to be successful. In fact, this is often glorified. Despite philosophies like The Four Hour Work Week becoming wildly popular, long work weeks have remained the norm.
Rahim Fazal (disclosure: Rahim is a member of Empact Sphere) is the co-founder of Involver, which raised $10M and eventually sold to Oracle ORCL +0.94% in 2012. In his words, “Over-working is a very important and pervasive problem. It impacts people at all of the phases of the company’s lifecycle and can be very damaging to the founder, the company, and its people. When you’re young and don’t know any better, you follow that as a heuristic. It’s completely false.”
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