I don't recall us being at Hack Arizona, certainly not me. I googled it and all it yielded was this HN post.
Your comment couldn't be further from the truth. I can't speak for whoever used these words (if they did), but I think we have pretty great work/life balance.
We all have families of our own and recognize they are far more important than our business. These things happen, such is life. Your kid gets sick, you want to care for them. Time off is always paid and we encourage people to take some. People often find it hard to take time off, but we've been good at it.
Nobody, generally, works more than 40 hours a week. I say "generally" because these past few weeks have been more intense given the end of our YC adventure, demo day, virtually meeting with investors and this Launch HN post. In normal times, I might work a few hours on a weekend but only if that brings me joy.
... and of course we're very flexible on work schedules because we're a remote-only company. Some weeks this might mean working only a few hours here and there because of life activities or the need to take time off. Other weeks, it might be the opposite. We recognize and embrace that.
Hey! I want to formally apologize -- the company I heard presenting had a name very, very similar to yours. Definitely was not the same company. Unfortunately it's past the 2 hour mark to delete comments on HN, but consider this my retraction of what I said above. Really sorry about the mix up, and what you have going here seems very impressive. Definitely seems like a fantastic attitude towards workers' health and happiness.
I don't recall us being at Hack Arizona, certainly not me. I googled it and all it yielded was this HN post.
Your comment couldn't be further from the truth. I can't speak for whoever used these words (if they did), but I think we have pretty great work/life balance.
We all have families of our own and recognize they are far more important than our business. These things happen, such is life. Your kid gets sick, you want to care for them. Time off is always paid and we encourage people to take some. People often find it hard to take time off, but we've been good at it.
Nobody, generally, works more than 40 hours a week. I say "generally" because these past few weeks have been more intense given the end of our YC adventure, demo day, virtually meeting with investors and this Launch HN post. In normal times, I might work a few hours on a weekend but only if that brings me joy.
... and of course we're very flexible on work schedules because we're a remote-only company. Some weeks this might mean working only a few hours here and there because of life activities or the need to take time off. Other weeks, it might be the opposite. We recognize and embrace that.